Museo Del Vidrio de Bogotá
Community-run glass museum in a converted adobe hacienda, showcasing hand-blown pieces by local master artisans.
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This guide to the Museo del Vidrio de Bogotá traces glassmaking on this hillside back to 1834, when kilns and brick factories once supplied much of the city, and how that trade nearly vanished by the twentieth century's end. At its center is Miguel Angel Mahecha, a glassblower who trained as an apprentice, then spent three years in Ecuador before returning to open his own workshop. The adobe house itself has served as a clinic, a school and a photography lab before becoming this museum; look for its rooftop lookout, once lit at night to guide neighbors home.
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