Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia

The Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU) is an art museum in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. Established in 2004 and managed by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, it serves as the principal venue for displaying the bank's art collection, which totalled 6,222 works in 2018. As part of the Banrepcultural Network, alongside institutions such as the Museo Botero, the Gold Museum, the Luis Ángel Arango Library, and the Museo Casa de Moneda, the MAMU functions as the network's largest space for exhibiting visual arts. The museum was renamed in 2016 to honor Colombian economist and academic Miguel Urrutia Montoya.

The MAMU does not maintain a permanent collection of its own. Instead, it displays works drawn from the Bank of the Republic Art Collection, which it shares with the Museo Botero. Since 2013, the museum has presented over 800 works across five curatorial departments. The permanent exhibition occupies a large 500-square-meter hall on the second floor, divided into sections. The core of the permanent display is dedicated to twentieth-century Latin American art and European art. The collection spans from the colonial era to the present, encompassing colonial, nineteenth-century, modern, and contemporary periods.

The five curatorial departments organize works across distinct historical and thematic periods. The First Modern Times (XVI, XVIII century) includes colonial-era works by artists such as Antonio Acero de la Cruz, Angelino Medoro, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Giovanni Francesco Maineri, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger, as well as anonymous works from the Quito School and Cusco School. Ruptures and Continuities (XIX century) features Colombian artists including Ramón Torres Méndez, Andrés de Santa María, Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona, Ricardo Acevedo Bernal, and Pedro José Figueroa, alongside international figures such as Chuck Close, Henry Price, Vik Muniz, François Désiré Roulin, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros, and Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez. La Renovación Vanguardista (1910-1950) presents Colombian artists such as Josefina Albarracín, Rómulo Rozo, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Sergio Trujillo Magnenat, Marco Tobón Mejía, Eladio Vélez, and Pedro Nel Gómez, with international counterparts including Rafael Barradas, Pedro Figari, Joaquín Torres-García, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Armando Reverón. Classics, Experimentals, and Radicals (1950-1980) includes major Colombian figures such as Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obregón, Feliza Bursztyn, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Antonio Caro, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Álvaro Barrios, Omar Rayo, Beatriz González, Édgar Negret, Fanny Sanín, Enrique Grau, Olga de Amaral, Lucy Tejada, Oscar Muñoz, and Ana Mercedes Hoyos, plus international artists such as René Portocarrero, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Rufino Tamayo, Jesús Rafael Soto, Rogelio Polesello, Julio Le Parc, José Luis Cuevas, Fernando de Szyszlo, Vicente Rojo Almazán, Julio Alpuy, and Louise Nevelson. Three Decades of Art in Expansion (1980 to today) features Colombian artists including Doris Salcedo, Danilo Dueñas, Juan Pablo Echeverri, and María Fernanda Cardoso, with international artists such as Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Los Carpinteros, Cildo Meireles, Marco Maggi, Carlos Garaicoa, Alfredo Jaar, León Ferrari, Vik Muniz, and Gabriel Orozco.

The museum building, inaugurated in 2004, is located on the southern block of the Luis Ángel Arango Library in Bogotá's historic center. Architect Enrique Triana Uribe designed a three-story structure conceived as a white box, deliberately contrasting with the spectacle museum typology developed in other world cities. The building's neutral and simple facades aim to remain unobtrusive within a block of colonial constructions. It preserves the height of its neighbor, the Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros. The structure incorporates full technological infrastructure and spatial versatility for presenting large temporary contemporary art exhibitions. Its Reserves area contains specialized conservation technology for works held by the Bank of the Republic Art Collection. A 500-square-meter hall on the third floor is dedicated to temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Notable temporary exhibitions held there include Guillermo Kuitca: Obras puntuales (2006-2007), Fantasmagoría: Espectros de ausencia (2007), and Regina Silveira: Sombra luminosa (2007), as well as retrospectives of Colombian artists María Fernanda Cardoso and Jim Amaral, and presentations from the Daros Latinoamérica collection in Zurich.

The Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia is located in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia, within the historic city center. It is managed by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia as part of the Banrepcultural Network. The museum's website is https://www.banrepcultural.org/bogota/museo-de-arte. As a publicly administered institution, it serves as the primary exhibition space for the bank's art collection, offering access to over 800 works in its permanent display and hosting temporary exhibitions in its dedicated third-floor gallery.