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.
The MAMU is part of the Banrepcultural Network along with the Museo Botero, the Gold Museum, the Luis ÃÂngel Arango Library, and the Museo Casa de Moneda.
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 cultural network and it's used to display the bank's art collection.
The Bank of the Republic's art collection dates back to 1957
Since 2013, the permanent exhibit has been divided in 5 different curatorial expositions: The first modern times,
In 2016, the museum changed its name from the Bank of the Republic Art Museum (Spanish: Museo de Arte del Banco de la República) to the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum as an homage to Colombian economist and academic Miguel Urrutia Montoya.
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.
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 AbramoviÃÂ, and anonymous artists from the Quito School and the Cusco School amongst others.
Colombian artists within this curatorial era include works by Ramón Torres Méndez, Andrés de Santa MarÃÂa, Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona, Ricardo Acevedo Bernal, and Pedro José Figueroa amongst others.
International artists within this curatorial era include works by Chuck Close, Henry Price, Vik Muniz, François Désiré Roulin, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros, and Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez amongst others.
Colombian artists within this curatorial era include works by Josefina AlbarracÃÂn, Rómulo Rozo, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona, Sergio Trujillo Magnenat, Marco Tobón MejÃÂa, Andrés de Santa Maria, Hena RodrÃÂguez, Marco Tobón MejÃÂa, Eladio Vélez, and Pedro Nel Gómez amongst others.
International artists within this curatorial era include works by Rafael Barradas, Pedro Figari, JoaquÃÂn Torres-GarcÃÂa, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Armando Reverón amongst others.
Colombian artists within this curatorial era include Fernando Botero, Alejandro Obregón, Feliza Bursztyn, Miguel ÃÂngel Rojas, Antonio Caro, Eduardo RamÃÂrez Villamizar, ÃÂlvaro Barrios, Omar Rayo, Beatriz Gonzalez, ÃÂdgar Negret, Fanny SanÃÂn, Enrique Grau, Miguel ÃÂngel Rojas, Olga de Amaral, Lucy Tejada, Oscar Muñoz, and Ana Mercedes Hoyos amongst others.
International artists within this curatorial era include René Portocarrero, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Rufino Tamayo, Jesús Rafael Soto, Rogelio Polesello, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Julio Le Parc, José Luis Cuevas, Fernando de Szyszlo, Vicente Rojo Almazán, Julio Alpuy, and Louise Nevelson amongst others.
Colombian artists within this curatorial era include works by Doris Salcedo, Oscar Muñoz, Danilo Dueñas, Feliza Bursztyn, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Miguel ÃÂngel Rojas, Beatriz Gonzalez, Olga de Amaral, MarÃÂa Fernanda Cardoso, Antonio Caro, and ÃÂlvaro Barrios amongst others.
International artists within this curatorial era include works by Ana Mendieta, Marta MinujÃÂn, Los Carpinteros, Cildo Meireles, Marco Maggi, Carlos Garaicoa, Alfredo Jaar, León Ferrari, Vik Muniz, and Gabriel Orozco amongst others.