Chicó Museum, Colonial museum in Chapinero, Colombia.

Chicó Museum is a house museum in the Chapinero neighborhood of Bogotá, set inside a colonial-style mansion surrounded by open gardens. The rooms inside have kept their original layout and display collections of porcelain, glassware, and decorative art that once belonged to the family who lived there.

Mercedes Sierra de Pérez inherited the El Chicó estate from her father Pepe in 1921. Following his philanthropic example, she donated the hacienda together with a sum of money so that it could serve as a museum. It has operated as a museum since 1976, and the family also gave the city the land of Calle 116, now Avenida Pepe Sierra.

The name Chicó comes from the neighborhood where the estate sits, an area that was once the outskirts of Bogotá and home to large private properties. Walking through the rooms today gives a clear sense of how a wealthy Colombian family of the early 20th century arranged their private life and their collected objects.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and is best visited on foot, since the gardens and indoor rooms connect naturally and are easy to walk through. A visit usually takes around one to two hours depending on how long you spend in each room.

The Sociedad de Mejoras y Ornato de Bogotá, the country's oldest civic body, keeps its headquarters at the museum and holds there the photographic archive of José Vicente Ortega Ricaurte, about 2,200 images of Bogotá from the first half of the 20th century.