Museo Santa Clara

This guide to Museo Santa Clara in Bogotá follows the Poor Clare nuns who entered the convent in a solemn procession in 1630 and never left its walls again, and the gilded garden of carved wooden flowers built into the ceiling for women who were never allowed to see a real one. You'll hear how the builders imagined Jesus as a gardener and the nuns as golden roses, safe from every season outside. Enter through the same crooked side door the congregation once used, angled so no one could glimpse a nun behind her grille.