Botero Museum

The Botero Museum (also known by Museo Botero)[1] is located in the capital city of Colombia: Bogotá. The museum houses one of Latin America's most important international art collections. It sees 500,000 visitors annually, around 1,000 daily, and of those 2,000 students per month.[2] Being in La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, the museum is within close proximity to other important landmarks like the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Gold Museum of Bogotá.

History

Patio of the museum

In the year of 2000[3] the Colombian artist Fernando Botero donated 208 art pieces, 123 of his own making and 85 of other international artists, to the Bank of the Republic. The Museum is administered by Banrepcultural.[4] With this collection, the Botero Museum was founded in the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the historic center of Bogotá, in a colonial mansion that was acquired by the Bank of the Republic and made suitable to house the art collection by Fernando Botero himself. Since November 1, 2000, the museum has been open to the public free of charge.[3]

Collection

The museum consists 123 works of Fernando Botero and 85 of other artists for a total of 208 works of art.[5] Highlights of the permanent collection include works by Balthus, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Museo Botero | banrepcultural.org". www.banrepcultural.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-02-08.
  2. ↑ "Museo Botero". banrepcultural.org.
  3. 1 2 "El Museo". banrepcultural.org. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
  4. ↑ "About Banrepcultural". Red Cultural del Banco de la República en Colombia. Retrieved 13 September 2018. The cultural activity of Banco de la República extends as a network through 29 cities in the Colombian territory, and is carried out in the Gold Museum in Bogota, five Gold Museums in Armenia, Cali, Cartagena, Pasto and Santa Marta, the Ethnographic Museum in Leticia, the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Casa Gómez Campuzano in Bogotá, the Library Network that extends through 28 Colombian cities, the Luis Ángel Arango Library Concert Hall, and Bogotá museums: Casa de Moneda, Botero Museum and, Miguel Urrutia Museum of Art (MAMU).
  5. ↑ "La Colección - banrepcultural.org".
  6. ↑ "Obras Artistas Internacionales - banrepcultural.org".
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