Churches
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MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF THE CASA DE LA MONEDA (MINT).-
In reality the museum of the Casa de la Moneda is one of the largest in the Americas,
having almost 30 galleries in which one can see vice-regal paintings, highlighted by
works of Melchor Pérez Holguín, as well as modern art and sculpture. The museum
also houses collections of historic coins, silverware, colonial machines for the
laminating of metals, ironwork, swords and firearms, furniture, musical instruments and
items of general historic interest. It also has displays of mineralogy, archaeology,
ethnography and folklore.
The historic archive conserves documents from 1550, related to aspects of the royal
administration, churches and convents of Potosí and Bolivia. It also holds legal
documents related to the functioning of the town council, local and regional government;
as well as documents and files related to the mint, administration of tobaccos, the
Linares Province, the Bank of San Carlos, Bank of Recoveries, Public Treasury, etc.
It also houses a library of almost 5,000 titles, fundamentally used by researchers.
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MINING MUSEUM SAN MARCOS.-
This museum is housed in one of the 120 silver mills that lined the Rivera, and it
conserves great part of the original construction. It is possible to see the aqueduct and
to trace its path above the milling well, and to explore some facets of the milling
process, such as by viewing the crushing mallets that are operated by the great
hydraulic wheel of six metres in diameter. In a same way one can see authentic
machines that were used in tin mining towards the end of the 19th Century.
This museum has a restaurant and cafeteria service.
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MUSEUM OF SANTA TERESA.-
The museum is located in the first and second cloisters of
the convent, which features colonial architecture. It
presents, in its 15 rooms, some 200 paintings, all in a
wonderful sate of preservation, by painters such as Pérez
de Holguín, Gaspar Miguel de Berrio, Ignacio de Ríos and
others. Highlights are the altarpieces, fine woodwork,
furniture, relics, and other objects from the 17th and 18th
centuries.
The pieces of domestic use provide a panorama of what
convent life was like in the colony.
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MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO.-
The important items that are on display in
this museum include; valuable works of
religious art, colonial religious sculptures,
colonial paintings, a history of convent
life, and objects worked in silver and
gold. Everything is displayed in the
setting of a typical colonial cloister. The
dome harbours a lookout from where one
can obtain a panoramic view of the city.
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