La Paz keeps its art in baroque palaces, its music in a charango maker's museum, and its boldest architecture 400m higher in El Alto. Three days run from gilded Cusco School canvases through Diablada masks to Freddy Mamani's mirrored ballrooms.
Set in the 1775 baroque Palacio de los Condes de Arana around a pink granite courtyard, three floors run from gilded Cusco School canvases to Bolivian modernists like Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas. Tue–Fri 09:00–12:30 and 15:00–19:00.
The 1790 mestizo-baroque façade carves chirimoya fruit, masked faces and Andean birds into volcanic stone. The museum route climbs through the choir, the crypts and the bell tower for a rooftop view over the plaza. Daily 09:00–18:00.
A 19th-century mansion on El Prado with stained glass attributed to Eiffel's workshop, now five floors of Bolivian and Latin American contemporary painting, sculpture and rotating shows. Open daily 09:00–21:00.
The Sopocachi home of Bolivia's foremost sculptor holds around 100 works in black granite, onyx and white alabaster — rounded Aymara women and Andean forms — inside the family patio where she carved. Mon–Fri afternoons.
Bolivia's ethnography museum, in an 18th-century colonial house on Calle Ingavi, holds a landmark mask gallery of Diablada and Morenada costumes plus weaving rooms decoding Jalq'a and Candelaria textile iconography.
The city's 1845 horseshoe opera house, restored with a frescoed dome and three tiers of red-and-gold boxes. It programmes the Bolivian National Symphony, folklore ballet and theatre; the week's bill is posted at the box office.
Founded by charango maker Ernesto Cavour on cobbled Calle Jaén, with over 3,000 Andean instruments — armadillo-shell charangos, siku panpipes, quena flutes — and hands-on stations where you are invited to play. Tue–Sun.
A stone-vaulted colonial cellar on Calle Jaén staging live folklore — charango and zampoña sets, Caporales and Tinku dancing — with an à la carte Andean menu served before the show begins around 20:30.
Bolivia's archaeology museum occupies an 1846 neo-Tiwanakota building carved with Gateway of the Sun motifs, displaying stone chachapumas, ceramics and textiles from Tiwanaku and the Lake Titicaca basin. Tue–Fri.
A walled city of stacked mausoleums where families glass-front the niches with toys, beer bottles and photographs, and Ñatitas skulls appear each November. The outer walls carry some of the city's largest commissioned murals.
Architect Freddy Mamani's neo-Andean cholets stack mirrored ballrooms and Tiwanaku-derived geometry in orange, green and violet across Villa Dolores and Avenida 6 de Marzo. Guided visits get you inside one ballroom.
The national film archive screens restored Bolivian classics — Jorge Sanjinés' Yawar Mallku, Wara Wara — alongside a permanent exhibit on the country's cinema history, across four screens with a daily programme from 15:00.