Calle Jaén
Calle Apolinar Jaén
La Paz's best-preserved colonial cobblestone street, where colourful old houses hide four small municipal museums and a musical instrument museum.
Calle Apolinar Jaén is a pedestrian cobblestone street under 200 metres long, lined with colonial-era houses painted blue, yellow and green, and it is considered the street with the most old-town character in La Paz. A combined ticket covers a group of municipal museums: the Precious Metals Museum, the Coast Museum, the Murillo House and the Museum of Customs. There is also the privately run Bolivian Musical Instrument Museum, displaying a variety of charangos. The street is said to be haunted, and many legends are told about it at night. The combined ticket is inexpensive, and most of the museums close on Mondays.
Opening hours
Museum about 09:30-12:30 and 15:00-19:00; closed Mondays
Nearby sights
- National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF)
- Mercado Lanza
- National Museum of Art
- Plaza Murillo
- Basilica of San Francisco
- Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
- Witches' Market
- Coca Museum