Suggested Activities
The following activities are not included in the official conference program but can be explored at your leisure. Some activities may have a cost or may need a reservation. Reimagining the Museum organizers are not responsible for the arrangement of these activities, or their related rules, regulations or cancellation policies.
Discover the City
Graffitour
The Graffitour offers a political, historic and cultural history of the Comuna 13 neighborhood in Medellín. This area has recently experienced a cultural renewel through greater focus on arts and culture to include graffiti art and hip hop.
Reservations and prices: medellingraffititour.com/
Turibus
TuriBus is a modern hop on/hop off bus that provides highlights of parks, vibrant neighbourhoods and historic sites in Medellín. Sites include:
- Pueblito Paisa: a reconstruction of a typical Antioquia village.
- Downtown Medellín: Metropolitan Cathedral, Bolívar Park, Lido Theater, Junín pedestrian street, Coltejer building, Berrío Park, Casa Barrientos (today known as Casa de la Lectura Infantil), and Pablo Tobón Uribe Theater.
- Library parks: strategically located in the periphery of the city, these library parks address the social, cultural, and educational needs of previously underserved communities.We recommend you visit Parque Biblioteca España, a library park situated atop a mountain in what was once one of the poorest neighborhoods, Santo Domingo Savio in Comuna 1, and offers a panoromic view of the city. You will need to take the metro and then a metrocable to get to this park.
- Parque de El Poblado, Parque lleras y Provenza: a vibrant area with many good restaurants.
Reservations, routes and prices: turibuscolombia.com/
La Bomba de Tiempo at the Circulart
La Bomba de Tiempo is an Argentinean percussion ensemble that makes music by improvising with signs. Their concerts are unique and unrepeatable as in each show their music is generated through the dialogue between the band musicians and the director who directs the improvisation through a system of 70+ signs that are performed with his hands. The group will perform in occasion of the Festival Circulart, the cultural platform for Latin American music, taking place in Medellin during November. is a modern hop on/hop off bus that provides highlights of parks, vibrant neighbourhoods and historic sites in Medellín. Sites include:
Museums Open Their Doors
Medellín museums will be open to all attendees of the Reimagining the Museum conference who have a conference pass.
Museo Casa de la Memoria
Located in the heart of the city, the museum documents memories of armed conflict in Colombia and serves as a place for dialogue and to better understand important social issues, reaffirm hope, and reimagine possible futures.
- Hours: 10 a.m. a 4 p.m.
- Location: Calle 51 #36-66 Parque Bicentenario
- Phone number: (+ 57 4) 3855555 extensión 4001
- Website: museocasadelamemoria.gov.co/
Museo del Agua EPM
The Museo del Agua EPM (Public Enterprises of Medellín) is a space that invites visitors to learn about the vital importance of water. This site, located in Parque de los Pies Descalzos, has nine galleries focused on three themes: GAIA: The Living Planet; Water and Civilizations; and Uses and Future Scenarios.
Note: We recommend attendees arrive 15 minutes prior to group tours.
- Hours:
- First Group: 11:00 a.m.
- Second Group: 2:00 p.m.
- Maximum capacity per group: 15 people
- Address: Carrera 57 No. 42-139. Parque de los Pies Descalzos
- Phone number: (+57 4) 380 17 90
Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMM)
The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, MAMM, is a center for cultural development, conservation and research in modern and contemporary art. It was declared a Cultural Heritage site of Medellín in 1985. Its collection includes 233 artistic works donated in 1987 by Colombian artist Débora Arango.
- Hours: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Location: Carrera 44 N° 19A-100, Ciudad Del Río
- Phone number: (+57 4) 4442622
- Website: elmamm.org/
Museo de Antioquia
This museum was the first established in the Antioquia region and the second in Colombia. The museum is located in the center of Medellín on the Botero Plaza near the Berrío Park metro station. It houses a large collection of works by Medellín native Fernando Botero and Pedro Nel Gómez.
- Hours: 10:00 a.m. a 5:30 p.m.
- Location: Carrera 52 No. 52-43
- Phone number: (+57 4) 251 36 36
- Website: museodeantioquia.co/
Casa Museo Maestro Pedro Nel Gómez
The Casa Museo Pedro Nel Gómez was established on November 15, 1975 by the Gómez family to preserve the cultural heritage of the scholar and artist as well as his important works of art. Maestro Gómez is one of Latin America’s most famous and well known artists and is widely considered a pioneer of modern art in Colombia. At the time of his death in 1984, he donated his studio/house in Medellin to the city to be used as a museum.
Museo Universidad de Antioquia (MUUA)
MUUA is a university museum and cultural center that offers education programs about its collections. MUUA houses around sixty thousand museum objects organized in four areas: anthropology, visual arts, natural sciences, and history.
- Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
- Location:calle 67 No. 53 - 108, at Universidad de Antioquia
- Phone number: (+57 4) 219 8332
- Website: udea.edu.co
Parque Ecológico Piedras Blancas
Located approximately 50 minutes from the city of Medellín, in the village of Santa Elena, the park is an ideal setting for nature walks or boat rides. Within the park is the Entomological Museum, which houses a collection of more than 15,000 insects. There is also the Mariposario (butterfly vivarium), where visitors can view the flight of various species of butterflies native to the region.
- Hours:
- First Group: 11:00 a.m.
- Second Group: 2:00 p.m.
- Dirección: núcleo de Comfenalco at Reserva Forestal Arví.
- Phone number: (+57 4) 460 1100
- Website: comfenalcoantioquia.com/
Parque Explora
Serving as a model in Medellín’s cultural transformation, this cultural complex includes a science and technology museum, Amazonian aquarium, a vivarium, a planetarium and a public workshop for experimentation. It has 12 stages, including four exhibition halls, a children's playroom, two auditoriums and an audiovisual production center.
- Hours: 10:00 a.m. a 6:00 p.m.
- Location: carrera 52 # 73 -75
- Phone number: (+57 4) 516 83 00
- Website: www.parqueexplora.org
