The National Museum of Colombia houses collections on history,
art, and culture of Colombia. Located in Bogotá downtown, is the
biggest and oldest museum in the country. The National Museum of
Colombia is a dependency of the Colombian Ministry of Culture.
The National Museum is the oldest in the country and one of the oldest
in the continent, built in 1823. The museum houses a collection of
over 20,000 pieces including works of art and objects representing
different national history periods. Permanent exhibitions present
archeology and ethnography samples from Colombian artefacts dating
10,000 years BC, up to twentieth century indigenous and afro-Colombian
art and culture. Founders and New Kingdom of Granada room houses
Liberators and other Spanish iconography; the round room exhibits
a series of oleos from Colombia painting history.