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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCSI) - Caracas
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCSI)
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Museums: Casa Natal de Bolívar
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  • MalenaN
  • Updated By MalenaN on November 16, 2008
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  • Casa Natal de Bolívar - Caracas
    Casa Natal de Bolívar
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    Simón Bolívar was born at this site on July 24, 1783. The interior of the house has been reconstructed and on the walls hang big paintings made by Tito Sales. They depict scenes from Bolivar’s life and battles. In the courtyard there is a stone font where Bolívar was baptised.
    The museum is open between 9 - 16.30 on Tuesdays - Fridays, and between 10 -16.30 on Saturdays - Sundays.
    Admission is free.

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  • Address: Between corners San Jacinto and Traposos
  • Phone: 0212 - 541 2563
  • Directions: Centro
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    Museums: Museo Bolivariano
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  • By MalenaN on November 16, 2008
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  • Museo Bolivariano - Caracas
    Museo Bolivariano
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    Next to Casa Natal de Bolívar is the Bolivar Museum. In this colonial building there are displays of different objects related to Bolívar and other important persons from the same era. Among other things you can see documents, letters weapons, medals and portraits.
    The museum is open between 9 - 16.30 on Tuesdays - Fridays and between 10 - 16 on Saturdays and Sundays.
    Admission is free.

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  • Address: Between corners of San Jacinto and Trapsos
  • Phone: 0212 - 545 9828
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    Museums: Museum of Fine Arts and...
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  • Cryp
  • By Cryp on August 24, 2002
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  • Museum of Fine Arts and National Art Gallery.
    The 'sculpture' The Penetrable. You can walk across it.

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    Museums: Museums of Parque Central
    Meztli81
  • Updated By Meztli81 on December 29, 2006
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  • I'm not sure of which museum was which, because the museum of fine arts and contemporary art or whatever it was seemed to be connected and I wasn't sure where one ended and one began, but in all the museums were very nice. I thought they were better than what we have in my town of Atlanta and the good news for me was that they were all free! I spent hours walking around and then sitting in an outdoor cafe outside and hearing the art kids (I think there's an art school there as well) talk and take pictures of random things. I regret I didn't get there earlier to spend even more time there. I read somewhere one of the museums was the largest in South America. Right outside the museums was parque central, where hippies sold crafts out of booths (the usual stuff, like beadwork and paintings).

    Across from the fine arts was the natural history (I'm too lazy to capitalize any of these names) and it was if anything amusing or surreal seeing large stuffed dead animals like giraffes, which would be living in a zoo in most other cities. Well, it was free, so no reason to not see it. All in all I liked my time there, even though the people from the eastern sides of town told me how dangerous it was and how they were too scared to go and hadn't been in years. The scariest thing I experienced was a choir singing Christmas songs very out of key, but still, I wouldn't hang around for nighttime.

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  • Address: Parque Central
  • Directions: Parque Central
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    Museums: Modern art
    world_citizen
  • By world_citizen on April 6, 2006
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  • The modern art museum is surprisingly god containing some Picassos as well as loads of cool modern South American art.

  • Address: Main street
  • Directions: Downtown
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    Museums: The Museum of the children
  • By Anadayur on August 25, 2002
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  • Museums - Caracas
    by Anadayur
    Is a museum for children, is beautiful in the inside

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  • Address: Down Town
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    Museums: Galeria de Arte Nacional (GAN)
  • Updated By salazara on November 26, 2003
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  • Galeria de Arte Nacional - Caracas
    Galeria de Arte Nacional
    by salazara
    This Gallery was build in 1938 by Carlos Raul Villanueva. The GAN was opened in 1976

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    Museums: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCSI)
    MalenaN
  • By MalenaN on May 30, 2009
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  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCSI) - Caracas
    Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de
    Caracas (MACCSI)
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    The Museum of Modern Art is one of the best of its kind in Latin America. It was inaugurated in 1973 and on 16 000 sq metres there are both permanent and temporary exhibitions. In the permanent collection there are almost 3000 pieces of art and you will find paintings, sculptures, installations and photography. Some of the artists with works in the museum are Jesús Soto, Alejandro Otero, Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Leger, Chagall, Braque, Miró, Botero and Henry Moore.
    The museum is open between 10 - 18 on Tuesday - Sunday.
    Admission is free.

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  • Phone: 0212 - 573 8289
  • Directions: At the eastern side of Parque Central.
  • Website: www.maccsi.org
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