The best museums Venezuela

An indispensable stop for all lovers of chocolate! 50, 60, 70 dark dark and even up to 100% cocoa-free cocoa.

Located 15 km east of Río Caribe and 12 km west of Playa Medina, in the village of Chacaracual, this hacienda in nature produces a range of cocoa-based products. Alida and Christine await you. Formerly 100% craftsmen, manufacturing today is semi-industrial but remains of excellent quality. Against a few bolivars, you will be told, on the ground, the whole process of harvesting in chocolate processing. It finishes in the form of a sumptuous tasting of a kind of homemade Nutella, chocolate boulettes and cocoa liquor. In option, I recommend a good cold chocolate glass 100% and above all fantastic crêpes chocolate crêpes! Hacienda Bukare has enchanted us. The educational course in the plantation is interesting, not to mention the tasting! You are given the information: The owner of the owner is Irene Esser, Miss Venezuela 2011 to 19 years old!

This former colonial house dating back to 1741 was chosen by UNESCO for its religious heritage. It is home to the country's first synagogue and one of the oldest in the continent. Amazing particularity, the soil consists of sand from the Médanos médanos. The building also houses art exhibitions.

Literally "Garden of Rêveuses Marine Stones". A mystical atmosphere in this park created by Gonzalo Barrios Pérez, a nature lover, who defines his work as the world's first museum of ecological art. Three steps make it possible to develop public sensitivity to the natural energies of stones. For this purpose, certain rules must be respected:

Men must come accompanied by a lady, because the garden places a cult on women.

Enter barefoot to be in direct contact with nature.

Don't wear a watch because the museum is looking out of time.

It's an opportunity to finally see what a guácharo looks like, learn a little more about the German scientist, and the cave in general. So as you are on the spot, why not?

Inaugurated in 1911 by Bishop Antonio Ramon Silva Garcia to celebrate the first centenary of the Declaration of Independence, the Diocese Museum moved in 1941 in this beautiful basilica, which contains a small collection of religious art, a mummy, a bell dated 909 and the portraits of successive bishops of Mérida.

A chapel was built in the centre of the giant patio at Caridad Hospital, dating back to 1918. The museum presents works by local artists, but also temporary exhibitions of the best collections of the country, or even foreign collections. Here you can see a creation of the founder Juan de Villegas. Concerts and theatre-club sessions are given every week in the chapel.

Transformed into a museum of the Tachira, the residence offers an exhibition on folklore, archaeology, history and crafts of this state which was Colombian until 1777.

This beautiful house owes its name to one of its owners (in 1839), Colonel Celis. In June 1821, the house improvised in hospital to treat the wounded in the battlefield of Carabobo. Today, it is one of the most representative museums of the colonial era. There is also a small collection of religious art as well as rooms dedicated to local artists: painter Antonio Herrera Toro and sculptor Andrés Pérez Mujica.

A sheltered wooden balcony, from which the owners (the Arcaya) could see the fighting during the civil wars of the th century, characterizes this beautiful ochre house of two floors. We owe this pleasant residence to the Rossillo family, and his name to Don Ignacio Luis Díaz de Arcaya, born in Spain in 1714, married to Coro in 1752, and whose grandson, Mariano, presided over the Union of Notables in 1821. Now restored, it has become a museum that houses, ceramics from Portugal (Berardos), Spain (Seville) and even De! As well as tiles from the pre-prehispanic era to nowadays, archaeological remains such as fossils and Chinese porcelain.

It is a tradition that it is! You are in the fourth house in Barcelona, built in 1671. These colonial traditions (religious objects, a spur of Boves) but also Indian (crafts) tell, with other authentic documents, the history of the city. Let us also note that, during the colonization, slave sales were held every Sunday in this building. Around the patio of this well-restored colonial house is exposed a collection of firearms and white weapons covering a period from conquest until the beginning of the th century. You can also enjoy the painted works of Honofre Frías, Harold Tobías, Giovanni Aquino and Justo Osuna.

The presentation is not fantastic, however, and doesn't want to look at it to decipher the interesting explanations in Spanish. Nevertheless, aware of this weakness, the authorities are studying many projects, including the one to incorporate an aquarium presenting the different fish of the Amazonian rivers. Right of symbolic entry.

Built in 1945 under Medina Angarita. Declared museum in 1974. The neo-colonial style is predominant, with a central patio. The old city council houses the relics of Sucre, the mock-ups of battlefields, etc. The museum presents cultural events.

On the lake, this park is a reconstructed village like the old pre-colonization time. The Indians show their way of life, their habitat, their traditional culture and crafts. This discovery can be completed with the Anthropological Museum of the Ateneo de Lagunillas on the Sugar Plaza.

Located in a well-preserved area, the museum has a blue balcony in 1790. It traces the history of the city and offers a wide panorama of pre-Columbian crafts. Also, colonial weapons and even a room dedicated to Bolívar (who commanded the port in 1812). At present, the Puerto Cabello Artists'association takes part in the House Lifting.

Closed during our maintenance passage, however, we have sneaked a few testimonies of the past, with parts like trapiches (tool used to work the sugar cane).

Overlooking the hacienda, the strategically located house allows to monitor the Maracay valley.

It was here that the Spanish established their headquarters in the war of Independence. On March 18, 1814, Captain Antonio Ricaute (statufié at the entrance, under Gómez, in 1911) will enter the powder reserve to detonate her. The officer will perish - and a thousand royalist soldiers - and will go to posterity for his act of bravery.

In the reconstituted house, the small museum of military history exhibits original pieces (time weapons, uniforms, letters, furniture). The gunners will note the presence of cannons, recovered from a boat in Puerto Cabello.

This post-colonial building houses, apart from the personal objects of Bolívar and its family, the weapons of the founding families of Caracas. You will learn everything about Libertador: its genealogical tree, its letters, its military victories… Note, in this connection, the presence of the newspaper Correo del Orinoco, which traces, particularly in French, the legendary battle of Carabobo (24 June 1821). It, let us remember, sealed the true independence of the country. For once, the collection is well placed, thanks to the explanatory terminals that guide the visits.

The children's museum, divided into several rooms (ecology, telecommunications, physics…), explains the science in a playful way thanks to many experiences of children… and their parents. You can play the sorcerer's apprentice, make television, see pousser, make paper, or play with our friends. Very recommended. Their cafeteria offers latte, coffee, drinks and confectionery.

In perfect condition, it houses an interesting museum which covers the whole history of coffee, its culture and its development. From the hacienda, you can take a detour to the charming village of Santa Cruz de Mora, to purchase a good quality homemade coffee. To get there, if you are not transported, pass through Lagunillas. 

Created in 1981, this museum covers the pre-Hispanic period until today. It discovers interesting palaeontological and archaeological exhibits. Since its creation, the museum has participated in numerous investigative works in the area of Cumaná, mainly towards the cerro de caiguire where futt discovered an animal fossil of mégathérium (long tail toothless mammals) dating from Pleistocene (the third time of the néogène system which covers most of the recent glaciations, i. e. 15 000 years). More recently, the museum also presents collections of the Venezuelan colonial period, peasant and indigenous cultures.