“Museo de Trajes” in the Old City if Bogotá

In the next newsletters we plan to present some museums in Bogota that are not so well-known like the famous Gold Museum. Nevertheless they are worth a visit. We start with the “Museo de Trajes” that is just 1 block away from the “Plaza Bolivar”. The “Museum of traditional costumes” in the historic center of Bogotá is a meeting point around the topic of Colombian traditional costumes. 

It invites therefore to a dialogue between past, present and future. By passing through the different rooms of the museum you go through parts of the Colombian history – traditional costumes from pre-Colombian times, clothing of the farmers around 1950 and traditional costumes of still existent indigenous groups. Furthermore you learn about the old weaving process by looking and understanding the old machines.