Colombian National Museum
The Museo Nacional de Colombia is the oldest museum in Colombia and was founded in 1823 by Francisco de Paula Santander.
Since 1948, the museum is housed in a 1875 built by Danish architect Thomas Reed building, planned as a prison and was formerly known as Panóptico de Cundinamarca.
According to the Institute of Natural Sciences ( Instituto de Ciencias Naturales ) of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Museo del Oro Banco de la República de Colombia is in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Colombia with about 30 million specimens to the third- largest public collection in Colombia. The portfolio is divided into four collections: art, history, archeology and ethnology
The collection of Colombian, Latin American and European art home to paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures and installations from the colonial period to the present.
In particular, the museum has the best oil painting collection of the country by Fernando Botero. The museum also has, among other numerous oil paintings by Gregorio Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos, Andrés de Santa María, Fídolo González Camargo, Roberto Páramo, Rómulo Rozo, Fernando Botero, Marco Tobón Mejía, Francisco Antonio Cano, Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau, Edgar Negret Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Santiago Martinez Delgado, Ricardo Gómez Campuzano, Roberto Pizano, Guillermo Wiedemann and Álvaro Barrios. They also preserved the great iconographic collection Simón Bolívar's numerous oil paintings, prints and engravings by José María Espinosa, Pedro José Figueroa and others.
In the collection of international art pieces themselves are like a Greek amphora, an Egyptian grave relief, some pictures Flemish and Dutch painters, over 100 exhibits and African oil paintings Latin American artists such as the Venezuelan artist Arturo Michelena and Armando Reveron.
The ethnographic collection includes about 4,000 coming from all over Colombia pieces. The archaeological collection consists of about 10,000 exhibits from all pre-Hispanic cultures of the country.
The historical collection contains numerous non from Colombia, but from all over Latin America, originating pieces. Below the script that Francisco Pizarro used the early 16th century in the conquest of Peru, a cape of a lover of the Inca Atahualpa.