Colonial Museum

The Casa de las Aulas, one of the oldest buildings in the city, is the current headquarters of the Museum. It was built at the beginning of the 17th century by the Society of Jesus by the architect Pedro Pérez, and until the expulsion of the community in 1767, it functioned as a university. The building saw the birth of the first National Library, witnessed the proclamation of Antonio Nariño as president in 1812 and learned about the sufferings of Francisco de Paula Santander, who served his sentence there after the conspiracy of 1828. It was home to the first National Museum , until in 1942 the Museum of Colonial Art was founded. It was declared a National Monument in 1975.