National Museum of Colombia
Museo Nacional de Colombia | |
| Established | July 28, 1823 |
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| Location | Carrera 7 No 28-66 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 4°36′55.92″N 74°4′8.43″W / 4.6155333°N 74.0690083°W |
| Type | Archeology, art, and history museum |
| Director | Liliana Angulo Cortés |
| Public transit access | National Museum (station) Calle 26 |
| Website | www |
The National Museum of Colombia (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Colombia) is the National Museum of Colombia housing collections on its history, art, culture. Located in the Santa Fe locality of Bogotá, Colombia, it is the largest and oldest museum in Colombia. The National Museum of Colombia is a dependency of the Colombian Ministry of Culture.
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.