Museo Nacional de Colombia

Great museum, the enteance is not cheap but it is worth it. They have permanent and temporary exposition with great variety. Inside there are nices coffe shops and souvenirs. The building itself is interesting with a lot of history, before it was a jail builded by the prisoners themselves.

Interesting museum with artwork of Colombia and primitive history and tools used by the natives in the past. Last Sunday of every month is free to entry and Wednesday from 3-5pm. Otherwise it’s $10 USD. Takes about 1-2h to see everything inside the museum. 3 floors of artifacts and paintings. Pictures are allowed. Most descriptions are in Spanish with some English words here and there. Staff is friendly and helpful.

Our main attraction of the day was the National Museum of Colombia here in Bogota. Known also as Museo Nacional, we had found out yesterday that entry was free on Wednesdays from 3pm to 5pm – even for foreigners. Hence, we walked quickly back from San Alberto Cafe to the National Museum of Colombia and arrived at 2:45pm. The staff were actually pretty strict about the timing. At about 2:57pm, there was already a small queue forming in front of the ticketing counter and we joined the queue as well. At 3pm sharp, the tickets started to be given out and we were 5th in line to receive our tickets. The museum was loosely arranged into 3 segments. The first floor, about the museum and how it came to be. The second floor about the people and nation of Colombia while the third floor was about the arts and artefacts... For the full review and details of our 5 months Round The World (RTW) travels, visit 2bearbear today!

I was a bit disappointed, charged me the the super expensive tourist price of 30000 cop but hardly anything is translated in English, so what's the point in going to not find anything out about bogota??? Maybe the employees should visit museo del oro, to learn how a world class museum should be presented?

A true national museum in every sense. Its exhibitions span vast scales of time and geography. The texts on the walls are beautifully written: thoughtful, elegant, and never pretentious. They match the exhibits perfectly and are worth reading slowly. Each of the three floors has a clear theme, guiding you through different perspectives on life, society, and art. You could easily spend a whole day here and still find more to appreciate.

I'm actually giving 3.5 stars, the museum is nice enough, but if you're a Colombian! For foreigners you have to pay $10 which is a bit too much for this museum, if it were $5-6 i'd be pretty staisfied, but considering the local price vs the tourist price, no, if i knew, i wouldn'd enter.

This museum is very informative and lovely to visit in Bogota to learn about the history of Columbia. The artwork is quite stunning and the design of the entire museum is very educating. Most of the exhibits are both in Spanish and English which is very helpful and the audio guide is worth it.

Entrance fee was USD$10 for tourists, cash only, and has to be paid in COP. Nice museum with a lot of artifacts in three stories of a historical building. It was once a prison. Probably need an hour to go through it all