VISITS TO MUSEUMS

VISITS TO MUSEUMS

Botero Museum

In 2000 the artist Fernando Botero donated to the Central Bank art collection of 208 works, 123 of its own making and 85 international artists. This collection was founded Botero Museum, located in the neighborhood of La Candelaria, Bogotá's historic center, in a colonial house which operated until 1955 as archbishop of the city, and was restored as a museum right by the Bank of the Republic, under the precepts and the curator's own Botero. Since 1 November 2000 the collection has been available to the public

123 works are exhibited itself Botero among them are paintings, drawings and sculptures. In these pieces can be seen the characteristic features of the artist's work, his extraordinary mastery of technique, the consistency of his vision, creativity, sensuality, volume management, the unexpected attention to detail and that combination of irony and respect that has marked his treatment of Colombian issues or allusions to world painting.

•    Mint house - Numismatic Collection of the Bank of the Republic

the Mint was founded in 1621 to perform work there coinage. using traditional methods were developed, among others, the first American gold cobs called doubloons

The Numismatic Collection of the Republic Bank opened in December 1996 in the colonial cloister of the mint of Bogota, a place where the first coins were minted gold in America in 1622. Through its rooms a journey through the history of Colombia, highlighting important events in national life, the history of the building and the processes involved in the production of coins and bills inserted into the historical context in which circulated. The exhibition aims to arouse public interest, creating a modern exhibition and didactic, illustrated with graphics and objects that show the technical processes used in the production of coins and bills, and likewise to visualize the architectural changes that took the House until the end of the twentieth century.

• Art Collection

The art collection of the bank of the republic born in 1957 from the first exhibition of modern art room, which the bank acquired 3 works this marked the bank's future as an art collector and set the objectives in this work: protecting and promoting the history of Colombian art, acquiring works that are considered the bulwark of our identity.

Today the collection assembly rooms for art museums of the republic bank how much the history of Colombian art chronologically within the canons that have marked the evolution of art while showing the referents of America and the world.

It begins with a religious painting of the colony of anonymous authors and culminates this stage with the collection of dead nuns, series of portraits of nuns from the convent burial of the Immaculate Conception.

COMPARATIVE SENTENCES

• The Museum of the Mint is more interesting than the Museum of Art Collection.

•  The Museum of Art Collection is older than the Museum of the Mint.

•  The Museum of the Mint is more historical than the Botero museum.

•  The Museum of Art Collection is more boring than the Mint.

•  The Museum of the Mint is more appealing than the Art Museum Collection.

•  The Museum of Art Collection has over religious paintings of Botero Museum.

• The museum has more works than Botero's art collection

• Botero museum has more landscape paintings than the Museum of Art collection

• Botero Museum is exciting than the other 2 museums

• Botero Museum is bigger than the museum of money

• Botero Museum is more modern than the art collection

• Botero Museum is newer than the museum of money