Bolivia Archives and Libraries
| Bolivia Wiki Topics | |
 | |
| Beginning Research | |
| Record Types | |
| Bolivia Background | |
| Local Research Resources | |
Archives
National Archives and Library of Bolivia (Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia)
Dalence #4
Sucre
Telephone: 6452246
Email: abnb@entelnet.bo
Website: Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia
Website #2: National Archives and Library of Bolivia
- The library and archive, established in 1836, holds many important documents dating from the time of “Audiencia de Charcas” colonial high court. The oldest document in the collection is a royal provision dating from 1546. Work is currently underway to digitize these important colonial records. The library holds over 1000 titles printed between 1530 and 1804 including works on theology, philosophy and other historical manuscripts. It also holds the most complete collection of Bolivian newspapers published between 1825 – 1907.
Archive of the City of Peace (Archivo de la Ciudad de la Paz)
Avenida 6 de Agosto
2080 La Paz, Dept. of La Paz
Telephone: 591 2 2441416
Email: fundacion.historia@mapfre.com
Website: Archive of the City of Peace
Website #2: Archive of La Paz
Website #3: The La Paz archive and its description instruments
- In general, the archives of the city of La Paz contain material on the Aymara communities of the current department of La Paz, which corresponded to the intendancy of the same name during the colonial period. There are some references to other ethnic groups, but the vast majority of the ethnographic information that is found is about the Aymara people. Therefore, in this text, the word "communities" will refer to Aymara and "indigenous" Aymara communities.
Franciscan Archive of Tarija (Archivo Franciscano de Tarija)
Franciscan Convent of Tarija
Calle Colón, 661, esq. Ingavi Tarija
Telephone: 591 4 6644909
Email: fundacion.historia@mapfre.com
Email #2: ced@franciscanosdetarija.com
Website: Franciscan Archive of Tarija
Website #2: Franciscan Archive of Tarija
Website #3: Franciscan Archive of Tarija
- The Archive keeps documents produced by the Franciscan missions during the colonial and republican times, of their evangelizing incursions in the lands of the Mataco and Guarani peoples. Among the linguistic documents of the colonial era there are dictionaries and catechisms in the Guaraní and Mataco language, and among the documents of the Republican era it keeps Guarani dictionaries and grammars, as well as works of catechesis and preaching and compilations of tales of the Guaraní peoples, noctenes and tuffs.
Museum of History and Historical Archive of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Museo de Historia y Archivo Histórico of Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno)
Calle Junín, 151 between Libertad and Spain
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Telephone: 00591 - 3 - 336 5533
Email: historia@uagrm.edu.bo
Website: Museum of History and Historical Archive of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- In 1999 the historical archive with colonial documents dating from 1614 to 1910 was opened to the public. The archive has books and manuscripts with the bibliographic collection of Adrián Melgar and Montaño from the 17th century; XVII and XIX. Documents of the Prefectural Fund from 1825 - 1910 are also found.
Libraries
National Archives and Library of Bolivia (Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia)
Dalence #4
Sucre
Telephone: 591 6 452246
Email: abnb@entelnet.bo
Website: Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia
Website #2: National Archives and Library of Bolivia
Bicentennial Library of Bolivia (Librería de la Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia)
C. Belisario Salinas #296
Capitán Ravelo #2445
La Paz
Telephone: 591 2 2142000 Ext 2423
Email: cis.bolivia@gmail.com
Email #2: camg.cis.bolivia@gmail.com
Website: Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia
Website #2: Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia
Central Library - Bolivian Catholic University "San Pablo" - La Paz (Biblioteca Central - Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo" - La Paz)
Av. 14 de Septiembre Nº 4807, esq. calle 2
Obrajes La Paz
Telephone: 591 2 2782222
Website: Biblioteca Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo"
Municipal Public Library (Biblioteca Pública Municipal)
Plazuela El Estudiante. Calle Libertad y, Av. Monseñor Rivero, Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Telephone: 591 3 3350811
Email: bibliotecamunicipasc@yahoo.es
Website: Biblioteca Pública Municipal
Museums
Museo Costumbrista (Folkloric Museum)
Casa Deheza
Calle Fray Jose de San Alberto #156
Sucre
Telephone: 591 4 6421773
Website: Museo Costumbrista (Folkloric Museum)
- While Museo Costumbrista features displays of costumes from Sucre’s colonial days, its name is not to be mistaken as meaning costume museum. Costumbrista translates to something more like customs or way of life. Museo Costumbrista therefore is a museum depicting life as it was in Sucre at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries.
Museo Universitario Charcas
Calle Bolivar #698
Sucre
Telephone: 591 4 6453285/6456100
Email: museocolonialcharcas@gmail.com
Website: Museo Universitario Charcas
Website #2: Museo Universitario Colonial Charcas
- Museo Universitario Charcas comprises three separate museums: the Anthropological Museum, the Colonial Museum, and the Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Museum of History and Historical Archive of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Museo de Historia y Archivo Histórico of Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno)
Calle Junín, 151 between Libertad and Spain
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Telephone: 591 3 3365533
Email: historia@uagrm.edu.bo
Website: Museum of History and Historical Archive of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- The History Museum offers the public a variety of cultural choices. In its rooms on the top floor have permanent exhibitions, such as archaeological exhibitions, library and archive; while on the ground floor there are temporary exhibitions of photographs, seminars, plays, university exhibitions, conferences and workshops.
National Museum of Archaeology of Bolivia (Museo Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia)
Tiwanaku 93
La Paz
Telephone: 591 2 2311621
Website: (Museo Nacional de Arqueología
Website #2: National Museum of Archaeology Tiwanacu – La Paz
Website #3: National Museum of Archaeology (Bolivia)
- Bronze Inca figures, mummies and a monolith are among the artifacts from the Tiwanaku and Inca cultures housed in this museum.
National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore)
Calle Ingavi 916
La Paz
Telephone: 591 2 2408640/2406446
Email: musef@ceibo.entelnet.bo
Email #2: musef@musef.org.bo
Website: National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore
Website #2: [http://www.lapazlife.com/places/national-museum-of-ethnography-and-folklore-musef/ National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF)}
Website #3: Museo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore (MUSEF)
- Housed in the 18th-century Marquis de Villa Verde Palace, is a surprisingly modern museum showcasing the regional particularities and unique characteristics of Bolivia’s independent cultures. Small ethnography & folklore museum in an 18th-century building featuring an array of artifacts.