Coca Museum
Museo de la Coca
A small museum beside the Witches' Market telling the story of the coca leaf, from Andean tradition to the cocaine problem.
The Coca Museum is on Linares Street. Its galleries are compact, using text, images and objects to tell the story of the coca leaf's religious and medicinal role in Andean culture, its role in the colonial silver mines of Potosí, and later topics such as the extraction of cocaine and international disputes over drug control. Guidebooks are available in Chinese, English and several other languages. It is well suited to a visit of about 40 minutes while exploring the Witches' Market, and the museum café serves coca tea and coca desserts. Note: coca products may not be brought into China.
Opening hours
Approx. 10:00–19:00
Nearby sights
- Calle Sagárnaga
- Basilica of San Francisco
- Witches' Market
- Mercado Rodríguez
- Mercado Lanza
- Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
- National Museum of Art
- National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF)