This room consists of a literary and visual tour of what a salon gathering could have looked and sounded like in Bogotá during the 19th century. By clicking on the icon labelled, "Music in the Salons," you will be directed to a short text that showcases what a salon or gathering was like in the Colombian 19th century, and how music-making and listening were an important part of these private encounters. This text is presented in dialogue with four literary excerpts written during this time, which you can access by clicking on the other four icons. We have opted not to provide an English version of these excerpts, as the particularities of the 19th century Spanish that these authors used would be lost in translation. However, we have included a summary of each excerpt in the English language. The first excerpt, “Teresa la limeña”  is a literary fragment from Soledad Acosta de Samper’s novel, Teresa la Lima, where de Samper describes the elegant and romantic interior of a living room. "El duende en un baile”  and “Quejas al mono de la pila” are two magazine articles that address nineteenth-century salon customs using mockery and sarcasm, revealing to us aspects of quotidian life that official music histories kept hidden. The fourth text is a collage of smaller fragments from multiple authors that detail the journey of one the main protagonists of this exhibition: the piano.