The stamp shows in the background the National Museum, the oldest in the country and one of the oldest in the continent, built in 1823. Its fortress architecture is built in stone and brick and served.. Дивитись далі » as a prison until 1946. In 1948, the building was adapted for National Museum and restored in 1975.
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. On the front, the image of who was once the director of the museum and to whom today an auditorium is dedicated to.
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