National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore

Its headquarters is located in the city of La Paz, but also has an office in the city of Sucre.

Its rooms offer permanent exhibitions on the cultures of indigenous peoples of the country, its notorious or subtle ethnic characteristics and their regional and dialects. It has different types of files.

It has several files. In the audiovisual archive has photographs, maps, drawings, posters, drawings and microfilms on indigenous peoples in Bolivia; colonial documentation; political parties in Bolivia, and newspapers and videos.

musef_5En file saves oral recordings of seminars, meetings, conferences and interviews of national and foreign characters, popular music, indigenous, language music, indigenous literature, ecology and environment, agriculture, political parties and traditional medicine.

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It also has a department of research on cultural heritage, national reality anthropological, historical and social and various collections MUSEF. Its research covers ethnic Aymara, Quechua, Guarani and Chiquitano groups, the festival calendar of the department of La Paz, the festive calendar of the department of Chuquisaca and the festive calendar of the department of Santa Cruz.

It also investigates ethnography of lacustrine Aymara, on chullpares (memorials) of Curahuara Carangas in Oruro, and ethnography of the Andean Anata (Andean carnival), also in the department of Oruro.