national Museum

Today the collections of the Museo Nacional de Colombia, the result of anthropological research, donations and acquisitions, amounted to more than 20 thousand pieces, symbol of the historyand heritage (relics of the first settlers and material culture of pre-Hispanic societies objects of the present indigenous and Afroethnography, testimonies of the different periods of national history and works of artistic value ranging from colonial times tothe art of the 'early modernists such as Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obregón, William Wiedemann, John Antonio Roda, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar and Edgar Negret Enrique Grau).

The Museum offers visitors 17 permanent exhibition halls, in which about 2,500 are exhibited objects, a temporary exhibition schedule that has allowed the Colombians to get in touch withimportant examples of history, art and archeology and international, and a diverse academic and cultural programmingincluding lectures, concerts, theater and dance, video and HistoryAnnual Lecture 'Ernesto Restrepo Tirado, "which is donecontinuously for more than 10 years.

It has also developed an ongoing program of international exhibitions, among which are: large format Sorolla, EugèneBoudin, Henry Moore, Picasso in Bogota, Masterpieces of European painting. Rau Collection, Rembrandt, Egypt: the passage to eternity, The Terracotta Warriors, an immortal army, and Sipan, the last treasure of America. These samples have had a massive response from the public, thanks to a pricing policy allows you to reach all audiences.

On the other hand, publications collect the wealth of the collections and the memories it referred to the academic meetings. Furthermore, the development of new technologies such as web page, with tours and virtual exhibitions, creates new and contemporary ways of interacting with the public.

Currently, the museum works in implementing the Strategic Plan2001-2010, a roadmap to ten years, which routes all the human and financial resources in three major areas: construction ofmultiple narratives of the history of cultural processes inColombia , development of public and strengthening the country's museums.

The National Museum of Colombia ... the museum of all Colombians.