Museo Botero

Botero Museum was founded in 2000 when the artist gave over 120 of his own works and 85 items from his personal collection to the Banco de la Repblica, which manages the museum out of a colonial manor home in the city's historic district of La Candelaria.

Fernando Botero's full-bodied aesthetic may be observed in fine artworks and massive public monuments in major towns and institutions worldwide. His penchant for curvaceous subjects—men, women, children, animals, and even bowls of fruit—is well known in his native Colombia and beyond; however, since the 1970s, Botero has amassed his own collection of historic masterpieces by seminal artists such as French-Russian multidisciplinary modernist Marc Chagall, legendary Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dal, and Claude Monet, leader of the French Impressionist movement.

The east wing of the museum houses paintings by the above and beyond, with works on display ranging from a 19th-century piece titled Gitane au tambourin by the French painter and draughtsman Camille Corot to a late 20th-century oil painting by the Spanish modern artist Miquel Barceló. The caliber and breadth of Botero's acquisitions place Museo Botero "among the five most important public international art collections in Latin America," according to Google Arts & Culture.

The west wing of the museum houses around 120 paintings, sculptures, and sketches by Botero himself. The collection depicts Botero's visual language known as "Boterismo," a style marked by bloated subjects that reference and draw on art history while simultaneously belonging to the artist's completely unique personal taste. Every day, over 1,000 people visit Museo Botero to view the collection, take a tour, participate in a workshop, or listen to a lecture. Botero co-curated the museum's collection, which was donated with the stipulation that all artworks remain in the space indefinitely.

Google rating: 4.8/5.0

Address: Cl. 11 #4-41, Bogotá, Colombia
Phone: +57 13431316
Opening hours: Mon to Sat - 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Sun - 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Website: artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-botero-bogota