Tourists can spend days exploring the amazing art on offer. Caracas boasts arguably the best avant-garde art museum in the country—Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art, with many works by acclaimed Venezuelan artists as well as foreign masters. Venezuela’s largest museum, the National Art Gallery, displays a selection of 7,000 pieces of Venezuelan art spanning five centuries. For art from further afield, visit the beautiful Museum of Fine Arts, which houses permanent pieces of Chinese and Egyptian art, as well as many other temporary exhibitions. For a more hands-on cultural experience, go to Bigott Foundation, a restored colonial house that offers a myriad of creative workshops including traditional music, food, arts and crafts. For amazing views over the city, take the cable car up to El Avila National Park.