Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogota

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá (MAC) as a cultural entity of UNIMINUTO is an institution that adopts the principles of the Minuto de Dios work, with which it was born in 1966 under the premise of Father Rafael García-Herreros “Beauty, like wealth, has an obligatory social function ”, which is a synthesized phrase from the museum's parable, in which García-Herreros tells about a visit he made to the house of a woman that had paintings, ceramics and other cultural riches that They were limited to the view of their owner, seeing this he expresses his desire to create a museum with important works donated by artists, who wanted to contribute to give a social meaning to culture. From there was born the idea that he would later share with Germán Ferrer Barrera, cultural manager and first director of the museum, who would be a fundamental person in the materialization of this dream.