Santa Clara Museum, Religious museum in La Candelaria, Colombia.

The Santa Clara Museum occupies the former church of the Royal Convent of Santa Clara, built between 1619 and 1647 by Spanish architect Matías de Santiago at Carrera 8 No. 8-91 in Bogotá's historic center. Its interior shows two decorative phases: 17th-century mural painting and, from the second half of the 18th century, wooden wall paneling with an ensemble of paintings, sculptures, and altarpieces.

The Franciscan order of Poor Clares founded its convent in Santa Fe de Bogotá in 1629, and the church, designed by Spanish architect Matías de Santiago, was built between 1619 and 1647. In 1863, President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera's desamortization law expropriated the church and convent from the nuns. The state later entrusted the temple to the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it eventually became a museum.

The name recalls Clare of Assisi, who founded the Franciscan order of Poor Clares in 1212; the Bogotá convent was founded in 1629, and on 7 January 1630 twenty-four nuns walked in procession from the Carmen church to take their vows here. Families often sent daughters to the convent instead of paying a marriage dowry, since the convent's entry sum was lower.

The museum sits in Bogotá's historic neighborhood and opens several days weekly, though wheelchair access is limited throughout. Visitors should prepare for narrow corridors and staircases when moving between the multiple levels of displayed works.

The wall paintings in the choirs, presbytery, main arch and sacristy include zoomorphic and phytomorphic motifs alongside saints and angels. They belong to a first decorative phase covering the 17th and part of the 18th century, later overlaid by wooden panelling fixed to the walls.