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The National Museum of Colombia ( es, Museo Nacional de Colombia) is the National Museum, Bogotá
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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,
National Museum
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of Colombia
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housing collections on its history
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, art, culture
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Bogotá
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downtown, is the biggest and oldest museum
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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 (inspired by the Panopticon
The panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be o ...
prison) 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
Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor, born in Medellín. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent politic ...
, Enrique Grau
Enrique Grau (December 18, 1920 – April 1, 2004) was a Colombian artist best known for his depictions of Amerindian and Afro-Colombian figures. He was a member of the triumvirate of key Colombian artists of the 20th century which included Fernan ...
, Ignacio Gomez Jaramillo, Santiago Martinez Delgado
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, Alejandro Obregón
Alejandro Jesús Obregón Rosės (4 June 1920 – 11 April 1992) was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.
Biography
Obregón was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was the son of a Colombian father and a Catalan mother. The Obregó ...
, Omar Rayo
Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian people, Colombian Painting, painter, sculptor, Caricature, caricaturist and plastic arts, plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked wit ...
, Andrés de Santa María, and Guillermo Wiedemann are part of the Permanent Collection.
Exhibitions
* The Chinese Terracotta Army was displayed in 2006, with seven full statues and several other objects and partsSee also
* Gold MuseumReferences
External links
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Museums in Bogotá
National museums
Art museums and galleries in Colombia
1823 establishments in Gran Colombia
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