Mission
The Ministry of Culture’s Quinta de Bolívar House Museum intends to preserve, increase, document, investigate, exhibit, and communicate
to an each time broader audience, the tangible and intangible testimonies of Simón Bolivar’s and his time’s thinking, ideals, and daily life.
This is done through the contact with the historical house that belonged to him, its collections and its surroundings. We want everyone to
discover, to reflect, and to build values of autonomy, peace, unity, and freedom, parting from each one’s experience and history, counting
with a highly qualified and committed work team.
2010 Vision
The Quinta de Bolívar is the commemorative center of the 180th anniversary of El Libertador Simón Bolívar’s death.
The project done to develop this center’s physical and functional infrastructure around the historical house, as well as the Bolivarian
Collection and Garden, has ended its first stage
The museum has seen its labor as a space to reflect about Bolívar, the concepts of autonomy, peace, freedom, and the new meanings of
history, nationally and internationally speaking.
The museum means tangible benefits for the community and for the institution itself, being a 100% productive Museum.
2009
The museum intends to design the programming of educational, cultural and investigative services that will commemorate the 180th
anniversary of Bolívar’s death.
The second stage of the International Network of Bolivarian Places creation will be developed.
We will adequate the Quinta de Bolívar cultural and recreational center.
The museum means tangible benefits for the community and for the institution itself, being a 90% productive Museum.
2008
The museum will participate in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s independence.
We increase our offer to Latin-American visitors.
The constructions and works in the Bolivarian garden will start.
The museum means tangible benefits for the community and for the institution itself, being a 80% productive Museum.
Our Values
Strong will/ Truthfulness
Harmony/ Autonomy/ Amistad
Loyalty/ Libertad/ Leadership
Organization/ Pride
Responsibility/ Respect/ Rightness
Ethics/ Education/ Enthusiasm
Solidarity/Wisdom/ Sociability
Strategic Linings
1. The development of educational, cultural, and investigative places to reflect about the Bolivarian thinking and the mew meanings of
history.
2. To increase and diversify our public.
3. To consolidate the de Bolívar cultural and recreational center. (the museum, collections, and Bolivarian park).
4. To tend towards sustainability.
Work Team
Director
Daniel Castro B.
dcastro@mincultura.gov.co
Collection Curator
William Gamboa
wgamboa@mincultura.gov.co
Cultural Activities and Communication
Dina Álvarez
dalvarez@mincultura.gov.co
Administrator, Quinta de Bolívar House Museum
Wilson Valencia
wvalencia@mincultura.gov.co
Administrative Helper
Abel Angarita
aangarita@mincultura.gov.co
General Maintenance
Hugo Pedraza
Héctor Pedraza
Administrator, Museum of Independence
Miryam Chacón
mcchacon@mincultura.gov.co
Administrative Helper
Abel Angarita
aangarita@mincultura.gov.co
Educational Department Coordinator, Museum of Independence
Eilen Antequera
eantequera@mincultura.gov.co
Educational Department Coordinator, Quinta de Bolívar House Museum
Clara Jimenez
cjimenez@mincultura.gov.co
