Museo Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia
Museo Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia is a Bolivian museum in La Paz .
The museum is dedicated to the pre-Columbian history of Bolivia before the European colonization of South America. The museum is managed by the Bolivian National Archeology Institute , which is part of the Bolivian Ministry of Culture. Objects such as ceramics, painted stone objects, metal objects and carved sculptures are displayed in the museum.
The museum building was erected following a decree of the Bolivian President Bautista Saavedra on May 22, 1922. Until 1959 the museum contained various research areas and was only designed on January 31, 1960 by decision of Carlos Ponce Sanginés as the exclusive National Museum of Archeology in Bolivia.
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Coordinates: 16 ° 29 ′ 59.4 ″ S , 68 ° 9 ′ 0.2 ″ W.