Caracas has a long history containing pirates and the colonial period. It has great cultural aspirations throughout the course of its history. Institutions like the old Atheneum bear and the National Library (affords abundant bibliographic information for the student of the discovery and independence of Venezuela) show that. The Museum of Colonial Art has an interesting exhibition of Venezuelan art from the periods previous to its independence with fountains, furniture, colonial courtyards etc. The Fine Arts Museum keeps some archaeological finds with good examples of precolombine pottery. Other museums are; Raul Santana Creole Museum, Transport Museum, the Coin Museum, Bolivarian Museum, Jacobo Borges Museum, Carlos Cruz-Diez Museum, Alejandro Otero Museum and Sacred Museum.

Caracas museums

Caracas sights and monuments