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Museos Universitario Charcas

TIME : 2016/2/19 14:33:16

Housed in a beautifully restored 17th-century building with a picture-perfect colonial courtyard, the Museos Universitario consists of three separate halls housing colonial relics, anthropological artifacts and modern art. Most interesting are the cases filled with dolls dressed in traditional ethnic fiesta clothing and, for the more macabre, a collection of skulls and mummified remains. The permanent gallery of paintings are mostly dark and dour portraits of generals and politicians; the quality of the contemporary exhibitions vary. Text is in Spanish and English.