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Ateneo del Táchira
The oldest building in Plaza Bolívar is the stylish Ateneo del Táchira, built in 1907 as the Sociedad Salón de Lectura. Today it hosts a cultural center with its own art gallery and an auditorium staging theater performances and screening art-house movies. Stop inside to see what’s on.
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Fundacion Proyecto AVE
A collaborative effort of photographers, graphic designers, biologists and scientists promoting ecotourism in Venezuela. Through its image bank, audiovisual library of wildlife, eco-store and online magazine, it seeks to educate nationals and visitors about the abundant flora and fauna in Venezuela and how to best preserve it through literature and educational programs.
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Museo de Artes Visuales y del Espacio
An early 20th-century mansion houses the Museo de Artes Visuales y del Espacio. Its 14 rooms feature changing exhibitions of paintings and sculpture by local artists.
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Museo del Táchira
About 1.5km north of Complejo Ferial is the Museo del Táchira. Situated in a spacious old coffee and sugarcane hacienda, the museum features interesting exhibitions on the archaeology, history and ethnography of the region.
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Colección Ornitológica Phelps
Serious birdwatchers and enthusiasts will want to pop into Colección Ornitológica Phelps in Caracas, an extensive research library that is also home to an astonishing 80,000 different taxidermies of birds, some dating back to 1890.
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Parque Generalismo Francisco de Miranda
Situated on a portion of a former coffee plantation, the 82-hectare Parque Generalismo Francisco de Miranda, formerly known and still referred to by caraqueños as Parque del Este, is the largest in Caracas, and a stroll through its expanses is a botanical odyssey, with many plants and trees labeled. You can visit the snake house, aviary and cactus garden, and on weekends enjoy astral displays in the Planetario Humboldt.
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Museo de Bellas Artes
The Museum of Fine Arts is a beautiful museum with lots of breathing room housed in two buildings, a functional modern six-story building and a graceful building radiating from a neoclassical-style courtyard with a pond and weeping willow – both were designed by Venezuelan architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva. The museum features permanent exhibitions from Egypt and China and on Cubism, as well as mostly temporary exhibitions in 18 galleries. It includes a little shop selling contemporary art and crafts and a cafe.
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Concejo Municipal
Occupying half of Plaza Bolívar’s southern side, the city hall was erected by the Caracas bishops from 1641 to 1696 to house the Colegio Seminario de Santa Rosa de Lima. In 1725, the Real y Pontificia Universidad de Caracas, the province’s first university, was established here. Bolívar renamed it the Universidad Central de Venezuela, the moniker it keeps to this day, though it has moved to a vast campus outside the historic center. Today the building is the seat of the Municipal Council, but part of it is open to the public.
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Fundación Bigott
If you’d like to dig a little deeper into traditional Venezuelan culture – perhaps learn to play joropo music with the bandola llanera (a string instrument) in the style of Anselmo López, or how to create your very own Festival de los Diablos Danzantes masks – you’ll want to pay a visit to Fundación Bigott. In a restored colonial home sitting prominently on richly preserved Plaza Sucre in the independent colonial town of Petare, Fundación Bigott offers extensive workshops in traditional Venezuelan culture, including traditional celebrations, music, gastronomy, popular arts and artesian crafts. Workshops generally last three months and cost a measly BsF15, but…
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Museo Bolivariano
Just a few paces north of the Casa Natal de Bolívar, this museum has successfully preserved its colonial style and displays a variety of independence memorabilia, from muskets to medals and shaving sets to swords. It also has some fascinating documents and letters written by the man himself, and numerous portraits. More on the morbid side are the coffin in which the remains of Bolívar were brought from Santa Marta in Colombia and the arca cineraria (funeral ark) that conveyed his ashes to the Panteón Nacional.
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