Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia

The Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU) (English: Miguel Urrutia Art Museum) is an art museum located in La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. It is managed by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia and used to display its art collection which numbered 6,222 works in 2018. History The art collection of the Banco de la República, the central bank of Colombia, dates back to 1957 and it now numbers over 6,500 works, mainly of Colombian and Latin American art. The art collection is displayed across the bank's cultural network including in the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum which is the largest venue for exhibiting visual arts within the network. Established in 2004 as the Banco de la República Art Museum, the MAMU is the main art museum within the Bank of the Republic's. Collection The MAMU, alongside the Botero Museum, houses the Bank of the Republic Art Collection. Since 2013, the museum displays over 800 works of art in five curatorial departments. First modern times (XVI–XVIII century) Artists within this colonial-era include works by Antonio Acero de la Cruz, Angelino Medoro, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Giovanni Francesco Maineri, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, modern artist Marina Abramović, and anonymous artists from the Quito School and the Cusco School.