Exposition

Currently open to the public 17 rooms completely renovated permanent exhibition in which approximately 2,500 objects on display from the collections of art, history, ethnography and archeology of the Museum.

Temporary Exhibition Hall, located on the first floor, offers a continuous program of exhibitions on various subjects and authors of history, anthropology, and the national and international art.

The classification of museum pieces allows its documentation and its management , as well as conservation. Classification systems for collections date back to the sixteenth century and have evolved since the way it organizes a collection is testimonial of the relationship between human beings and the outside world.



Museums today handle different parts classified systems through hierarchies. At the National Museum of Colombia there are four types of collection that are grouped according to the way they acquire the objects within the institution : Archaeology, Art , History and Ethnography.



The collections of archeology and ethnography prehispanic indigenous and Afro twentieth century are preserved , researched and published by the Curatorial Department of Archaeology and Ethnography run by the Heritage Division of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History - ICANH .



History collections from the sixteenth to the twentieth and the different periods of Colombian art , with its international art section , are the responsibility of the Curatorial Department of Art and History .