Museum

Today collections of the National Museum of Colombia - fruit of anthropological research , donations and acquisitions, amounted to more than 20 thousand pieces , symbol of the history and heritage (vestiges of the first settlers and material culture of pre-Hispanic societies objects of the present indigenous and Afro-Colombian ethnography , testimonies of different periods of national history and works of artistic value ranging from colonial to art ' first modern as Fernando Botero , Alejandro Obregón , Guillermo Wiedemann , Juan Antonio Roda , Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar and Edgar Negret Enrique Grau ) .

The Museum offers visitors 17 permanent exhibition halls , in which are exhibited around 2,500 objects , a temporary exhibition schedule has allowed Colombians to get in touch with important examples of history, art and national and international archeology , and a varied academic and cultural programming including lectures , concerts , theater and dance performances , videos and Annual Lecture History ' Ernesto Restrepo Tirado ' , held continuously for more than 10 years .

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

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

Today the Museum is working on implementing the 2001-2010 Strategic Plan , a roadmap to ten years , which routes all human and financial resources in three major areas : construction of multiple narratives of the history of cultural processes in Colombia , public development and strengthening of the country's museums .