Chapinero, Bogotá
Bogotá bookshop, record store, bar and cultural space established in 2017. Its programme includes listening sessions, literary presentations, concerts, reading clubs, workshops, film forums and exhibitions.
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Visit official site ↗Chapinero, Bogotá
Galería El Museo is a contemporary-art gallery at Calle 80 No 11-42, Local 2. It presents rotating exhibitions, represents artists, and publishes books. A virtual shop sits beside the gallery rooms.
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Visit official site ↗Centro & Chapinero, Bogotá
One of Bogotá's longest-running bookshops, Librería Lerner sells across literature, science, the humanities, art and design from its store on Avenida Jiménez in the historic centre and a second on Calle 93. It ships books throughout Colombia from its own online store.
Best for Broad general and Colombian bookshop
Visit official site ↗Librería Nacional
Hidden GemCali / Bogotá / Online
Librería Nacional was founded in Barranquilla in September 1941 and pioneered self-service bookselling in Colombia. It now runs 31 branches in Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Pereira, with cafés and ice cream parlours inside the Cali shops. More than 60,000 titles are supplied by some 250 publishers in Spanish and English.
Best for Colombia’s bookselling house since 1941
The Librería Nacional de Colombia was founded in Barranquilla in September 1941. It was a pioneer in the country of self-service bookselling and of the sale and distribution of magazines. The house also stands out for bringing ice cream parlours and cafés inside its bookshops, a feature of the Cali branches in particular. Today it counts 31 branches across the country, with bookshops in six cities, Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Pereira, placed in the main shopping centres of each. An online shop at librerianacional.com reaches customers anywhere in the world. The catalogue runs to more than 60,000 titles across every subject, supplied by some 250 publishers and distributors in Spanish and English. Around 500 new titles arrive each month, and the international bestsellers are put out first. The company describes its calling cards as tradition and a pleasant setting, together with a wide and varied stock and personal attention for anyone in search of a book. Institutional buyers and schools are served through a dedicated purchasing desk, and customer service answers from Cali. The house presents itself plainly as a place to buy books from the comfort of home or in one of its shops.
Visit official site ↗Teusaquillo, Bogotá
Bookseller with branches in Bogotá's Teusaquillo and La Macarena neighbourhoods and a further location in Tabio, with an online catalogue spanning fiction, essays and nonfiction.
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Visit official site ↗Chapinero, Bogotá
Bogotá bookshop and interdependent contemporary-art circulation space at Calle 69 #10A-09. It links publishing with the artistic field through its Salvaje and Jardín imprints, exhibitions, workshops and courses, while also presenting itself as a nursery, support group, dance floor and catalyst for collaboration.
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Visit official site ↗Chapinero, Bogotá
Galería Sextante and Taller Arte Dos Gráfico form a Bogotá art and printmaking space. Arte Dos Gráfico was founded in 1975 by María Eugenia Niño and Luis Ángel Parra; the official history dates Sextante’s gallery practice to 1981. The venue includes temporary and permanent exhibition rooms, a project room, projection space, an artist-book room and spaces for graphic work.
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Visit official site ↗Wilborada1047
Hidden GemChapinero, Bogotá
An independent bookshop-café spread over three floors of a heritage English-style house on Calle 71, stocking Colombian, Latin American and international literature plus graphic novels and art titles. It runs a reading club, book exchange and workshops alongside its 300-square-metre bookshop.
Best for Three floors of Colombian and Latin American literature, graphic novels
Visit official site ↗Ábaco Libros y Café
Hidden GemCalle de la Iglesia / Online
Ábaco Libros y Café has occupied a corner of Cartagena’s walled city since May 2002, combining a general bookstore with coffee, wine and light food. It also functions as a cultural meeting place for readings, book launches, discussion groups and events tied to the city’s major festivals.
Best for Books and café service in Cartagena’s historic center
Visit official site ↗Barrio Capri, Cali
Oromo Libreria Editorial opened in southern Cali, Colombia in 2020, pairing used books and craft beer with coffee. The name honors the Oromo people of Ethiopia and their coffee-based conflict-resolution ritual.
Best for Used books, craft beer and coffee in an Oromo-inspired cultural space
Oromo Libreria Editorial started selling online in 2019 before opening a physical space in southern Cali, Colombia on January 3, 2020, launched with support from family and friends rather than outside investment. The name is a deliberate reference: the Oromo people of central Ethiopia are described on the shop's own site as among the first to use coffee beans, with a coffee ritual historically used to reach resolutions in conflicts or trade agreements - a lineage the Cali shop invokes directly in its name rather than as a passing detail. Its original inventory reflected that mixed identity from the start: used books, craft beer, and coffee sourced through what the shop calls diverse social processes, rather than a single supply chain. Four years after opening its doors, Oromo still frames itself less as a conventional cafe or bookstore than as a cultural space, shipping nationally within Colombia and taking all standard payment methods for online orders. The combination - secondhand books, beer, and coffee tied to a specific origin story - sets it apart from Cali's more conventional cafe-bookshop pairings.
Visit official site ↗ST.DOM Bogotá
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Founded in 2014 by Alex Srour and Maya Memovic, ST.DOM is a Colombian concept store built around fashion, design, art and culture. Its Bogotá and Cartagena spaces showcase more than 100 Colombian designers alongside jewelry, accessories, contemporary art and Latin American books.
Best for Colombian fashion, jewelry, books and design objects
Visit official site ↗Granada, Cali
Contemporary-art gallery and cultural platform in Cali and Miami led by founder Juliana Rugeles. It presents emerging national and international artists alongside modern and contemporary masters, and includes a cinematheque, bookstore and online art shop.
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