The Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá (MAC)as a cultural entity of the Minute University of God - UNIMINUTO, was founded in 1966 and currently has a permanent collection of Colombian, Latin American and some European and American artists which constitute its acquis of more than 1,700 works from the second half of the 20th century to today.
Born in a modest room of Minute College of God, his first exhibition took place with 55 works. The increase in their activities and new donations for their collection motivated the construction of a building designed exclusively to be an art museum, which was a fact without reference in Colombia, not only for its avant-garde design, but for its location in El Minuto de Dios, a popular neighborhood to the north-west of Bogotá.
On November 21, 1970, the new building designed by the architects Eduardo del Valle and Jairo López, which received the National Architecture Award, thanks to its spatial concept that stands out by a spiral that unfolds over a large central vacuum that serves as a lucernary (transparent or translucent structures located on ceilings or covered to illuminate the interior of a building), while its staircase allows a helicoidal circulation through its three floors, which forms a single volume with the theatre.
Its spaces, both inside and outside, are a frequent setting of academic, social, cultural, community and religious activities.
The museum is a real avant-garde icon of culture in the north-west of the citythe new names of national art.
