Iglesia de Santa Clara

The Santa Clara Museum occupies the space of the former temple of the Royal Convent of Santa Clara, built in 1647. It is located in the Historic Center of Bogotá, in race 8 No. 8-91. It has a wide collection of paintings and sculptures from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The building is considered one of the most representative samples of Baroque architecture and decoration of the 17th and 18th centuries in Bogotá. This museum is an entity of the Ministry of Culture. The museum, housed in one of the temples that belonged to the female religious communities of the colonial period, not only has a large colonial collection that features works by Gregorio Vásquez de Arce and Ceballos, Gaspar and Baltazar de Figueroa and Agustín García Zorro de Useche among others, it also has samples of mural paintings scattered in the choirs, the presbytery, the toral arch and the sacristy, with zoomorphic, phytomorphic motifs and some representations of saints and angels. Likewise, the museum has hosted several exhibitions of contemporary art, with which it seeks to build relationships between artistic expression and current problems, and the ornament and culture typical of the colonial period.