Children's Museum of Bogotá, Educational museum in Barrios Unidos, Bogotá, Colombia.
The Children's Museum of Bogotá was a museum foundation in an 8,000 m² building in the geographical centre of the city, with over 23 modules and hundreds of individual exhibits on science, technology, culture and arts. Its outer gardens held a real Boeing 720 donated by Avianca, and a room reproduced city roads to teach traffic signs. It closed in 2018 and became a children's park.
The Children's Museum of Bogotá was founded in 1986 by the Fundación Museo de los Niños under the leadership of President Belisario Betancur, with backing from private Colombian businessmen and state entities, and opened to the public in 1987. In 2010 COLSUBSIDIO took over its full administration. The museum returned to the city in November 2017 in poor condition, and in 2018 it was replaced by a children's recreation park.
For its 15th anniversary, the museum invited leading young Colombian artists to paint murals on its walls, resulting in a collection of 42 works. These murals became a reference point for art students in Bogotá. The Computer Clubhouse, promoted by Intel and the Museum of Science, Boston, taught children from low-income families animation, graphic design and robotics.
The museum stood in Bogotá's geographical centre, in an 8,000 m2 building of about 23 modules and hundreds of exhibits. It closed in 2018 and the site became a children's park with bouncing houses, bicycle rides and races. The Boeing 720 in the outer gardens had no fuel, electricity or engines.
An aircraft sits outside the building and serves as a learning tool about aviation and flight principles. The airplane was donated by a major airline and brings the region's aviation history to life in a tangible way.
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