Museo de Barquisimeto

The city museum occupies the old San Juan de Dios hospital, an attractive late-19th-century complex of arcaded courtyards and tiled corridors. The permanent collection covers the history of Lara state and Barquisimeto specifically — pre-Columbian ceramics, colonial-era religious art, photographs and ephemera from the city's growth in the 20th century.

It also runs a programme of temporary exhibitions, often of contemporary Venezuelan painting and sculpture. Hours can be erratic depending on staffing and the political situation; check before crossing town for it, but if it is open it is a rewarding hour.

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The building was Barquisimeto's main hospital from the late 19th century until 1956 — a long, single-storey ward block laid out around courtyards. When the hospital moved the city converted it into a museum, leaving much of the original structure intact.

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