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Information of interest about Caracas:

Caracas is also known as heaven’s branch, since it combines as no other city does, impressive modern structures with artistic and cultural heritage, concrete jungles with beautiful parks and nature reserves, and the typical cultural and commercial activity of a capital city.

You can visit a great number of museums housing diverse collections, which range from historic or scientific elements to art works. Likewise, visitors may enjoy a good play, a concert or an active night life typical of Caracas.

Furthermore, Caracas is the seat of the country’s most important universities and research institutes.

Caracas is without any doubt a place that every traveler should visit.


	Most of the Venezuelan cities have museums of different characteristics, where visitors can appreciate different expressions ranging from the plastic activity of national painters to objects, garments, weapons and documents that represent the life of national leaders or archaeological testimonies that date back to pre-Columbian times. A combination of museums that show native handicraft samples or petroglyphs with exhibition centers that show the evolution of the oil industry, transportation and the Armed Forces, or those that guard excellent collections of both national and foreign artists. In addition, a good number of private and official art galleries show the permanent validity of plastic artists, and there are private collectors that have transformed their houses into personal museums, and allow the public to come and appreciate their valuable belongings.
	“Art Museum”, Caracas

	Arturo Michelena This museum is engaged in the exhibition, research and diffusion of the work of the artist Arturo Michelena (1813-1918), notable painter, author of several of the most significant works of Venezuelan art. Arturo Michelena received the most important international awards of his time. Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas Sofía Imber Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas was founded in 1971, in order to create, keep, analytically exhibit, extensively display, show, appreciate and increase a collection of modern art. The following were considered the basic duties of the institution: · Promote cultural activity. · Exchange and spread knowledge, a proper place, enjoyment and sensitivity of the different manifestations and expressions of national and international contemporary art, through mechanisms that contribute to promote and expand the scope of culture in the country. · Make the museum a meeting place that stimulates and promotes knowledge, enjoyment, imagination capacity and sensitivity of contemporary art.
	“Science and Technology Museum”, Caracas

	Children’s Museum It was founded in 1986. Its basic function is make the children learn, through experience, about different topics such as communications, art, computer science, the human body, and in general, the world surrounding us. The museum exhibits different topics such as the city, physics, solar energy, greenhouse plants, a television studio, computer science, technology and the future, coal, oil, nutrition, dental hygiene and paleontology. It also has a theater, a plane and a locomotive.
	“History Museums”, Caracas

	The Liberator’s Home (Bolivarian Museum) The residence of the Bolívar-Palacios family, known by everybody as The Liberator’s Home, was built near the place where formerly was the Square and San Jacinto Convent, in the mid 18^th Century. The visitors will see the rooms that once were used by the Bolívar family, which are now turned into a museum and exhibit important pieces of furniture and decoration art of the time, as well as invaluable portraits of Bolívar’s ancestors. This complex represents today a priceless legacy for the nation.

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