Diego Huallpa Historical Mining Museum

Located inside the Cerro Rico de Potosí, the most famous mountain in Bolivia for its legendary silver mine, the Diego Huallpa Mining Museum was inaugurated. It will have 25 rooms, and will occupy three thousand square meters inside the mine. In addition, due to its location, it will be one of the highest museums in the world, since it will be four thousand meters above sea level. The exhibition will include, among other attractions, work tools that served miners during the colonial period, in the Republican era and today, as well as machinery that was owned by Simón Iturri Patiño, one of the so-called “Tin Barons Diego Huallpa is the name of the indigenous man who, around 1545, discovered a rich silver vein on Cerro Potosí, on whose slopes the Spanish later founded the Imperial Villa of Carlos V. The repository exhibits mining objects, minerals and other articles related to the exploitation of the subsoil.