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National Museum of Colombia

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National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
National Museum of Colombia
Phone:
+57 1 3816470

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


The National Museum of Colombia is the National Museum of Colombia housing collections on its history, art, culture. Located in Bogotá downtown, is the biggest and oldest museum in Colombia. The National Museum of Colombia is a dependency of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. The National Museum is the oldest in the country and one of the oldest in the continent, built in 1823. Its fortress architecture is built in stone and brick. The plant includes arches, domes and columns forming a sort of Greek cross over which 104 prison cells are distributed, with solid wall façade. It was known as the Panóptico and served as a prison until 1946. In 1948, the building was adapted for National Museum and restored in 1975. The museum houses a collection of over 20,000 pieces including works of art and objects representing different national history periods. Permanent exhibitions present archeology and ethnography samples from Colombian artefacts dating 10,000 years BC, up to twentieth century indigenous and afro- Colombian art and culture. Founders and New Kingdom of Granada room houses Liberators and other Spanish iconography; the round room exhibits a series of oleos from Colombia painting history. Paintings by masters Débora Arango, Fernando Botero, Enrique Grau, Ignacio Gomez Jaramillo, Santiago Martinez Delgado, Alejandro Obregón, Omar Rayo, Andrés de Santa María, and Guillermo Wiedemann are part of the Permanent Collection.
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