Ten Commandments lawyer gets symbolic vagina art banned in Colombia’s capital
A Colombian lawyer has successfully won a battle to ban an art exhibition that features symbolic...
Tag: Museum
$1.2M spent to restore Casa Museo Bolivar
Restoration at Colombia’s Casa Museo Bolivar, where Latin American independence hero Simon...
Calima Gold Museum in Cali
Visitors to Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, will find that The Calima Gold Museum is a...
Colombia inaugurates Shakira’s mobile museum
This November marked the start of the “Shakira Route”, a mobile museum devoted to the iconic Colombian singer. The innovative project gives locals, tourists and fans a new opportunity to get closer to Shakira. The museum,...
Cali photographer’s house the ‘living memory’ of salsa history
A man from the western city of Cali has collected thousands of pictures of salsa stars spanning four decades. Carlos Molina has taken more than 20,000 photos of historic and current salsa musicians since 1971 and boasts another...
Cartagena fishermen become tour guides
A fishing island off the coast of Cartagena has been adapting to the tourist season by employing fishermen as museum guides, reported El Tiempo Wednesday. The small fishing island of Tierrabomba is hoping to attract foreigners...
Medellin museum exhibit strips human sexuality down to the nitty gritty
The recently installed, aptly named exhibit “Falos y Vaginas” (Penises and Vaginas) at Medellin’s University of Antioquia Museum (MUUA) takes a close, naked look at the history of portrayals of human sexuality....
Cali museum exhibit displays ancient and colonial religious themes
Two Cali museums have teamed up to create an exhibit that presents the different religious conceptions held by pre-Columbian and colonial Christian cultures in Colombia. The 35-piece exhibit called “Pasion, muerte y...
Juanes squashes idea for museum in his honor
In a brief message, musician Juanes asked journalist Hector Arango to halt an initiative to build a museum commemorating his work, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. According to the article, the message read: “Forget this...
