History of Colombia, visiting the National Museum with Pacha Educational Tourism
Tour description
Great stories have happened in our country Colombia, this is an incredibly beautiful and incredibly magical territory. This museum is the most important and oldest in the country, it is located in Bogotá DC Here you can breathe history, showing in each of its rooms the culture, the party and in part the pain that its inhabitants have lived throughout more than 200 years of history.
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1. Colombia has incredible fauna and flora that must be known in order to preserve it, for this reason the botanical expedition room is perfect to understand the wealth that the national territory has.
2. There is a kind of urban legend that talks about the ghosts of the National Museum.
3. The Santa Rosa de Viterbo Aerolite is the oldest element in the entire Museum and the first to arrive when it was founded. However, the French scientists who found it were not able to bring it to Bogotá until years after its discovery. They say that this aerolite fell to that municipality after a cosmic explosion more than 200 years ago.
4. The oldest item in the entire museum is the Puerto Chacho Vase, which is at least 12,000 years old. However, it is one of the most recent to arrive at the site in comparison to its age, since it arrived in 1988, after a team of archaeologists found it near Cartagena.
5. One of the most valuable and at the same time least appreciated items in the Museum is the crown given to the liberator Simón Bolívar in Cusco. The gift was given to him by some ladies from that area of Peru after the battle of Ayacucho. It is made entirely of gold and it seems that the liberator did not wear it very much.
6. The National Museum of Colombia was created in 1823, and is one of the oldest in America. It offers its visitors seventeen permanent exhibition halls, in which around 2,500 works and objects, symbols of history and national heritage, are displayed.
7. The infrastructure of the National Museum is very complex since in its beginnings it was one of the largest prisons in the country and it houses elements of torture or elements to change the behavior of prisoners.
8. In its calendar of temporary exhibitions, the Museum presents national and international history, art and archaeology exhibits. Additionally, it offers a varied academic and cultural program that includes conferences, concerts, theater performances, dance and audiovisual screenings.
9. The Museum offers visitors workshops, specialized tours, and guidance for teachers, among other educational services. In addition to fulfilling its curatorial and research functions, the Museum is also a space for enjoyment and learning. This dual characteristic makes it an open and active place, and therefore, a space for communication.
10. Through its exhibitions, the National Museum raises public awareness about the development of societies, cultural exchanges, mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.
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Tour attendees must pay their entrance fee. During the week, the museum entrance fee is 5,000 Colombian pesos (1.50 cents). There is a different rate for students and foreigners. The last Sunday of the month is free.
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