Bolivia Guide
La Paz
Museo de Instrumentos Musicales de Bolivia
Address: Calle Jaen Opening time: Daily 9.30am–1.30pm & 2–6.30pmPrice: $0.63
Set around a pretty colonial courtyard, the delightful Museo de Instrumentos Musicales de Bolivia is home to an astonishing variety of handmade musical instruments from all over Bolivia, some of which you can play with in-house lessons at competitive rates. A collection of pre-Columbian pipes and drums is followed by a plethora of the stringed instruments – guitars, violins, mandolins and charangos – which were introduced by the Spanish and eagerly seized upon by the indigenous population, who quickly combined these two elements to create the distinctive Andean music of today.