General Interest Museums – Bogota Travel Guide

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Bogota has about fifty museums, such as the following, all worthy of visiting.

Casa De La Moneda – Currency House

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Casa De La Moneda – Currency House (Calle 11 No. 4-93): In this wonderful colonial house, you find samples of coins, as of the 19th century, This collection has an important representation of the issuance of currency by the Bank of the Republic…

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Botero Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Botero Museum: A total number of 208 works of art, 85 of them international and 123 belong to the artist’s own work. Fernando Botero turns Bogotá, along with Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Caracas and through Botero’s effort…

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Gold Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

The Gold Museum boasts an extraordinary collection, the most comprehensive of its kind worldwide, which includes approximately 35,000 pieces of jewelry belonging to Calima, Quimbaya, Tayrona, Muisca and San Agustín (St. Augustine) civilizations…

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Museum of Man – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Museum of Man is a striking and interesting place, which is unlike any other museum in Bogota, It presents important aspects of the human body through 209 pieces that capture the reality of the anatomy of man…

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National Museum – Bogotá Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

National Museum was once a prison. The anthropological and ethnographic museum is found in the first floor, dedicates to the Muisca and Tayrona cultures. The second level of the museum is dedicated to the study of the Conquest…

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Bogotá Modern Art Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Bogotá Modern Art Museum was created in 1955, and has been on its pre sent site since 1985. Architect Rogelio Salmona designed the 53,000 sq ft. building. There are six main exhibition rooms in which individual exhibits…

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20th Of July Museum – Flower Pot House

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

It contains documents, engravings, paintings, furnishing and other objects which recall the july the 20th, 1810, when the rebellion that concluded with the independence began…

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Bolivar House Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

The government of Nueva Granada acquired it and gave it to Bolivar in 1820, as an expression of gratitude for his devotion to the cause of independence. Bolivar used it as a private retreat and a place to celebrate his victories…

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Saint Clare Church Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

An eclectic architectural style is combined i with paintings of great artistic value, In its interior, oil-paintings and murals abound, i as well as sculptures, altarpieces…

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The Children´s Museum – Bogotá Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

The Children´s Museum is designed for kids, is an ideal place to learn about art, science and technology. Through teaching activities children are guided through the 25 modules of the museum…

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Graphical Arts Museum – Bogotá Travel Colombia

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Graphical Arts Museum is placed in a former Augustinian convent. It keeps a great sample of varied handicrafts from all parts of the country. Visits: Tuesdays through Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m…

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Colonial Art Museum – Bogota travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Colonial Art Museum, What was originally the first seat for the Colegio Máximo de la Compañía de Jesús (a Jesuit school) at Nuevo Reino de Granada, at the beginning of the 17th century…

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Chico Museum – Bogota travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Chico Museum is a typical example of the ranch houses constructed at the end of the 18th century. It preserves a valuable collection of works of art and antiques from different periods. Its exhibition halls…

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Archeological Museum – Marquis of San Jorge’s House

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Archeological Museum is one of the most beautiful Colonial houses preserved in the city; dating back to the end of the 15th century. Its facade with a romantic style portal, the bar windows…

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Jorge Eliecer Gaitan’s House Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan’s House Museum, the house of the distinguished politician holds archives of Colombia’s social history of the early 20th century….

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Military Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

This Military Museum contains the history of firearms, of the bestowal of decorations, of rockets with and without crews, a didactic sample of the Liberty Campaign of 1819 and the conquest of space…

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Regional Dress Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

Regional Dress Museum originally belonged to Bolivar’s companion, Manuelita Saenz. Since 1972 it has been a museum of indigenous and regional dresses. The display of textiles and designs shows…

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The Museum of the Sea – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

The Museum of the Sea was created in 1969 by the School of Sea Sciences from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and it displays the museographic assemblies of stuffed species…

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Silva Poetry House – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

The house of famous poet Jose Asunción Silva is an old building dating back to the 18th century. It served as the poet’s house at the end of the 19th century…

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19th Century Museum – Bogota Travel Guide

Country: Republic of Colombia – South America

19th Century Museum (Carrera 8 No. 7-83): In an old republican style large feudal house, an interesting collection of different objects is exhibited that represents those periods…

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