Military Museum of Colombia
Cannons and a presidential helicopter share courtyards with hands-on displays built for children to touch.
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This guide to the Military Museum of Colombia in Bogotá starts in the naval room, where a hands-on missile display lets visitors turn the gears that once steered a warhead. It traces the building's own path from a plot once owned by independence hero Antonio Ricaurte, through decades as an engineering and art school, to its opening as a museum in 1982. Upstairs, a wooden flight simulator from the 1940s sits in the aviation room, not far from the two courtyards where tanks and artillery pieces stand with no rope holding you back.
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