Tours and Tickets to Experience Botero Museum (Museo Botero)
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Botero Museum (Museo Botero)
- A must-visit museum for culture buffs and art enthusiasts.
- Admission to Museo Botero is free.
- You can rent an audio guide—available in English, French, and Spanish—if you want to gain further insight into the pieces on display.
- Museo Botero is fully accessible for wheelchairs and strollers.
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There are plenty of ways to experience the Botero Museum. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:
You don’t need to pay anything to visit the Botero Museum thanks to its free entry and even free guided tours, but you will need to pay a small fee to rent an audio guide. City tours provide a convenient way to visit the museum with a guide, with tours that stop and spend a while at the museum starting from around US$60.
Yes, you can take a guided tour of the Botero Museum. The museum offers free guided tours in Spanish and English, although English tours are only available from Friday to Sunday. Special art tours are also available, where a guide takes you to visit multiple museums, including the Botero Museum and the Mint Museum.
Visitors to the Botero Museum can see famous artwork by the museum’s namesake, Fernando Botero, and other acclaimed international artists such as Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. The museum’s most popular pieces are Botero’s “Monalisa”—a parody of Da Vinci’s—and his “Leda y el cisne” sculpture.
Plan to spend at least 30 minutes at the Botero Museum, although most people need 1–2 hours to explore the museum comfortably. However, if you run out of time, you can always come back another time and see what you’ve missed, as entry is free.
Yes, the Botero Museum is wheelchair accessible. While the front entrance has a half-step, the museum’s rear entrance is barrier-free and can be accessed by first entering the Main Information Point in the neighboring Miguel Urrutia Art Museum—MAMU. Inside the museum, elevators provide access to the exhibits on the upper floors.