Botero Museum

Botero Museum

Established	2000
Location	Calle 11 # 4-41 Bogotá
Coordinates
Type	Art museum
Public transit access	Museo del Oro station
Website	www.banrepcultural.org/museo-botero

The Botero Museum located in Bogotá, Colombia 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. 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 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. 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.

Collection

The museum consists 123 works of Fernando Botero and 85 of other artists for a total of 208 works of art. 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.

Gallery

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  Claude Monet. El Geldersekade de Amsterdam en invierno, 1871-1874.

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  Eugène Boudin. El puerto de Trouville, 1884.

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  Gustave Caillebotte. La llanura de Gennevilliers, 1884.

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  Camille Pissarro. El Louvre, mañana brumosa, 1901.

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  Edgar Degas. Mujer en el baño, 1902.