Museo de Arte Moderno Cartagena
Former royal customhouse and weapons workshop, its stone walls now hung with Colombian modern art.
This guide to the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena walks through centuries of work done inside the same stone customhouse: Spanish officials taxing every crate of wine and bar of silver in the sixteen hundreds, then gunsmiths and blacksmiths repairing artillery and rifle mountings for the young republic in the eighteen hundreds. It follows painters Alejandro Obregón, born in Cartagena, and Enrique Grau as they pushed for a home for Colombian modern art, years before their collection had one. A timber-beamed warehouse annex added at the end of the eighteen hundreds still stands beside the original building.
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