Claustro de San Agustín, Museum in La Candelaria, Colombia.

The Claustro de San Agustín is a museum and national monument located in La Candelaria, the historic center of Bogotá. It occupies a colonial cloister building organized around a central courtyard, with vaulted corridors and thick stone walls connecting a series of galleries on two floors.

The building was not founded as a convent: between 1733 and 1744 the cathedral archdeacon Salvador López Garrido donated a house separated from the convent by a street, and a new building was later erected under fray Gregorio Agustín Salgado. In 1783 the Batallón Auxiliar moved into the former site of the Universidad de San Nicolás de Bari, closed in 1775. Antonio Nariño was arrested there on 23 November 1809, and the building later housed the Senate and military units before being declared a national monument in 1975.

The Museo de Artes y Tradiciones Populares opened here in 1971 and closed years before the Universidad Nacional took over the building in 2006; its collections are no longer on display. Since 2015 the cloister has hosted art exhibitions and cultural activities, and since 2017 it has housed the Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ).

The cloister stands in La Candelaria beside the Casa de Nariño, on the block bounded by Carrera 8 and Calle 8; the church of San Agustín faces it diagonally across the street. The Universidad Nacional received the building in 2006 and adapted the entrance, bookshop, bathrooms and lighting in 2008–2009. It is used for temporary exhibitions, so check what is on before crossing town.

The cloister has no church of its own, an anomaly in colonial religious architecture; it was historically tied to the San Agustín church diagonally across the street. Since 2017 it has housed the Colombo-German Institute for Peace (CAPAZ), and the Universidad Nacional runs exhibitions here through its Cultural Heritage Office.