Anthropological Museum of the Orinoquía

Anthropological Museum with exhibits of the indigenous communities of the Colombian Eastern Plains, located in Tame, Department of Arauca.
Anthropological Museum of the Orinoquía
Image taken from the Museum's Facebook page.
Type: Anthropological Museum
Country:
Colombia
Establishment: 2013

The Anthropological Museum of the Orinoquía (Spanish: Museo Antropologico de la Orinoquía) is a museum located in the municipality of Tame in eastern Colombia, is the first museum dedicated to the anthropology of the indigenous communities of the department of Arauca.

History

The museum project dates back to 2001, in which 300 million pesos were invested for this project with funds from the national government as well as the mayor's office of Tame in addition to CORPES (Spanish acronym for Regional Councils for Economic and Social Planning). The purpose of creating this museum was with the intention that the indigenous ethnic groups of this Colombian region had their space within a cultural site. This is the first museum recognized by the Ministry of Culture of the country for the Department of Arauca.[1] In the mid-2000s, the museum had to close.[2] In 2013, the museum reopened again.[3] The museum building was originally used as Tame's Casa de la Cultura (Cultural Center), in which it opened during the municipality's patriotic celebrations in 2013, as one of its initial exhibits, the museum displayed images by photographers Andrés Cipriano of Brazilian descent and Antonio Briceño from Venezuela.[3]

Collections

Escultura de Bakatsolowa

In the rooms of the museum you can find photographic exhibits about the indigenous communities that inhabit the area of Tame.[4] The museum presents collections with handicrafts, arrows, traditional clothing, backpacks from different communities of the Orinoquia such as Giraras, Guahibas, Sikuanis, as well as communities from some parts of the department of Guaviare and other parts of Cravo Norte in the south of the Arauca department.[1] The museum also has exhibits dedicated to the Llaneros, which features chairs made of wood, tools of daily use in this area of the country, and "tranqueros".[3] In 2015, the museum had the opportunity to exhibit two exhibitions with elements and guidance from the National Museum of Colombia.[5] One of these exhibitions was "Campo revelado" (lit. Field Revealed), which showed photographs taken by Efraín García about the Colombian agrarian reform that emerged in the 1960s.[6]

References

  1. Melendez, J. (2001-03-29). La Orinoquía con Museo Antropológico. El Tiempo. (in Spanish)

  2. Jiménez, C. (2005). La museología como estrategia para reconocer nuestro pasado común en América Latina. DPH (in Spanish)

  3. Abierto museo de la Antropológico Orinoquia en Tame. (2013) Llanera (in Spanish)

  4. Riquett, S. (2022-06-15). ¿Cuántos de estos 12 museos en las regiones de Colombia conoce? Colombia Visible. (in Spanish)

  5. En Tame se presentan dos exposiciones itinerantes del Museo Nacional de Colombia. (2015). Museo Nacional de Colombia. (in Spanish)

  6. Suárez, M. (2015). Estas son las exposiciones en museos que no debe perderse en octubre. Diario La República. (in Spanish)

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