Other sights in Bogotá
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Museo del Siglo XIX
Nearby the observatory, the fun Museo del Siglo XIX offers a look inside something other than Spanish colonial Bogotá. The museum fills a former Repúblicano-style home built intentionally in English and French styles in two swoops (in 1850 and 1880). A visit takes in a sample of 19th-century capital life, with a refashioned pharmacy, corsets galore, and an alldecked-out parlor with a secret chamber and porcelain spit jars. Don’t miss the 3000-piece toy doll collection, the culmination of six decades of collection by a couple of local señoras.
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Iglesia Museo de Santa Clara
Facing the palace from the west (on Carrera 8) is one of Bogotá’s most richly decorated churches, the Iglesia Museo de Santa Clara, now run by the government as a museum. Considering all the other same-era churches that can be seen for free, many visitors pass on this one, but it is a stunner. Built between 1629 and 1674, the single-nave construction features a barrel vault coated in golden floral motifs looking down over walls entirely covered in paintings (98 not including the closed-off loft, by our count) and statues of saints.
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Plazoleta del Chorro Quevedo
No one agrees exactly where Bogotá was originally founded – some say by the Catedral Primada on the Plaza de Bolívar, others say here, in this wee plaza lined with cafes, a small white church and many boho street vendors (or hacky-sack players). It’s a cute spot any time of day, but particularly as dark comes – and students pour onto the scene – in the narrow funnel-like alley leading past pocket-sized bars just north.
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Maloka
A kilometer south of the gardens, and a short walk from the bus station in the planned neighborhood of La Salistre, Maloka is a kid-oriented interactive center of science and technology. Lots of kids in uniform amble about the eight rooms – using physics to lift a car, or playing in the life-sized toy-block park. There’s also a high-tech Cine Domo cinema, which plays 40-minute films on a huge dome-ceiling.
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Museo Militar
The two-floor Museo Militar is run by military guys in fatigues, and may be interesting to some for its playful models sporting the history of military uniforms (note the ‘anti-terrorist’ outfit), a delirious ‘Conquest of Space’ exhibit of floating gods and Wright Brothers’-type contraptions in a sea of stars, and a courtyard of artillery and aircraft, including a presidential helicopter.
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Gold Museum
Bogotá’s most famous museum is this recently renovated Gold Museum, which contains more than 55,000 pieces of gold and other materials from all the major pre-Hispanic cultures in Colombia. All is laid out in logical, thematic rooms over three floors – with descriptions in Spanish and English.
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Museo de Arte del Banco de la República
Just behind Museo Botero is the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, past a wall-fountain and wine bar. It shows changing exhibits, and its auditorium hosts many free events.
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World Trade Center
The World Trade Center is the heart of Calle 100’s ‘financial district,’ with business offices and a couple of hotels.
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Capilla del Sagrario
Next door to the Catedral Primada is the baroque Capilla del Sagrario. It houses six large paintings by Gregorio Vásquez.
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