Museo El Castillo, Decorative arts museum in El Poblado, Colombia.
Museo El Castillo is a decorative arts museum in the El Poblado neighborhood of Medellín, Colombia, housed in a building with Gothic and French elements. The fourteen halls contain furniture, paintings, porcelain, and crystal objects from Europe, along with a multilingual library of approximately three thousand volumes.
Architect Nel Rodríguez began building the palace in 1930 in a medieval Gothic style modelled on the castles of the Loire. It served as the country house of physician José Tobón Uribe until his death in 1942, when industrialist Diego Echavarría Misas of Itagüí bought it as a family residence. In 1971 his widow, Doña Dita, donated the castle with all its decoration after his kidnapping and murder, turning it into a museum.
The name of the house refers to its tall towers and medieval-inspired design rising above the park trees. Families and school groups often visit the rooms on weekends to explore the European artworks and groomed gardens.
The museum opens on weekdays from nine to five and on weekends from ten to five, with guided tours in Spanish available throughout the day. The gardens around the building are suitable for walking and resting before or after the tour.
The museum occupies the former country house of physician José Tobón Uribe, who had the plans brought from France; after his death in 1942 the industrialist Diego Echavarría Misas bought it. His wife Benedikta zur Saiden Akl, known as Doña Dita, donated the castle with all its decoration after his kidnapping and murder, and it opened as a museum in 1971.
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