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Museo San Francisco Cultural Center

The Museo San Francisco Cultural Center is a cultural institution located in La Paz city, Bolivia.

Museo San Francisco Cultural Center
Museo San Francisco Cultural Center · Ligocsicnarf89 (CC BY 4.0)
The place

The Museo San Francisco Cultural Center is a cultural institution located in La Paz city, Bolivia. It was established with the aim of preserving and conserving the arts and memories related to events and historic moments of the city of La Paz in Bolivia, because the history of the convent and the Basilica of San Francisco that houses the museum is closely related to the history of this city.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Museo San Francisco Cultural Center

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia

    The Chamber of Deputies is the lower chamber of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, the bicameral legislature of Bolivia. Like the upper chamber, the Senate, it meets in La Paz, the seat of government.

    400 m · Lower house of the National legislature of Bolivia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Senate of Bolivia

    The Chamber of Senators, formerly known as the National Senate, is the upper chamber of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, the bicameral legislature of Bolivia. Like the lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, it meets in La Paz, the seat of government.

    400 m · Upper house of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Higher University of San Andrés

    The Universidad Mayor de San Andrés or UMSA is the leading public university in Bolivia, established since 1830 in the city of La Paz. UMSA is the second-oldest university in Bolivia, after the University of San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca.

    1.2 km · university in La Paz, Bolivia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Plaza Murillo

    The Plaza Murillo is the central plaza of the city of La Paz and the open space most connected to the political life of Bolivia. Prominent buildings on the plaza include the Palacio Quemado, the Casa Grande del Pueblo, Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia, and the Cathedral of La Paz.

    300 m · square in La Paz, Bolivia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, La Paz

    The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, also called La Paz Cathedral, is a cathedral and minor basilica is located in Murillo Square in the city of La Paz in Bolivia. It was built in 1835 with a neoclassical architecture with Baroque elements.

    300 m · cathedral in La Paz, Bolivia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Basilica of San Francisco, La Paz, Bolivia

    The Basilica of San Francisco in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, is a Catholic church under the advocation of Francis of Assisi. It is located in the center of the city, in the square that bears its name, Plaza San Francisco.

    100 m · church in La Paz · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Public University of El Alto

    The Public University of El Alto, also known by its acronym UPEA, is a public university based in the city of El Alto, Bolivia. The public institution has 8 areas and 37 careers in the areas of medicine, engineering, socio-political-economic, and technology.

    6.1 km · university in El Alto, Bolivia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Witches' Market

    The Witches' Market, also known as El Mercado de las Brujas and La Hechiceria, is a popular tourist attraction located in Cerro Cumbre, a mountain clearing in La Paz, Bolivia. It is located in the street of Linares, El Rosario neighborhood, but also extends to the streets of Jiménez, Santa Cruz and Illampu.

    1.4 km · Market for magical paraphernalia in La Paz · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National Museum of Art, La Paz

    The National Museum of Art, Palacio Diez de Medina is a museum in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. It has an important permanent collection of colonial paintings, including canvases by Melchor Pérez de Holguín and Gregorio Gamarra.

    300 m · national museum of art in La Paz, Bolivia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia

    The Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia is an art museum in El Alto, Bolivia. Inaugurated in 2002, as of 2011 the museum contains 503 works of art and 11,931 books.

    3 km · Bolivian art museum · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Museo San Francisco Cultural Center

Airports
El Alto (LPB), 6 km · Juan Mendoza (ORU), 198 km · Jorge Wilsterman (CBB), 232 km
Stations
El Alto International Airport, 6.2 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Museo San Francisco Cultural Center

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Museo San Francisco Cultural Center. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address -16.4884 | long easily reached with the Línea Azul gondola, and frequent trufi connections from El Alto bus station or Ceja (Bs.
  • Get in1) | phone | hours | wikipedia | lastedit=2018-05-10 | content=Besides the station, Río Seco also just refers to the from where many minibuses leave and where all buses from the terminal also pass by.
  • Get in2 for the ferry, 3.5 hr), Sorata, Desaguadero, and Tiwanaku (Bs.
  • Get aroundThere are three types of shared public transportation in La Paz: regular buses or "micros"; shared vans, called "mini buses", and shared taxis running set routes advertised on the windshield, called "trufis".
  • Get aroundYou can hail a bus or mini bus anywhere; to get off, just yell out "¡voy a bajar!" A system of nine cable car lines (Mi Teleférico) connects El Alto with downtown La Paz and reaches even Imparvi.

From Wikivoyage: La Paz, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    RurrenabaqueBO

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  2. 02
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

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    OllantaytamboPE

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    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

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  5. 05
    HuacachinaPE

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Around it

Next door to Museo San Francisco Cultural Center

Museo San Francisco Cultural Center is 1 km from La Paz, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • La Pazcapital city and seat of government of Bolivia400 m
  • El Altosecond-largest city in Bolivia3 km
  • Achocallahuman settlement8.8 km
  • Mirafloresneighborhood of La Paz, Bolivia1.5 km