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\n\tProtesters assembled around Bogota\u2019s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects \u201crelated to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,\u201d according to the digital news source Colombia One<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tAs reported, \u201cThe decision by Abelardo De La Espriella\u2019s government, announced last Friday, turned the area around the museum into a site of public demonstrations against what protesters describe as \u2018an attempt to impose an ideological view of the country\u2019s history.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe protests on Saturday and Sunday included anti-censorship sentiment and political theater but also clashes with the police, who used water cannons and riot-control equipment to combat opponents of De La Espriella\u2019s right-wing campaign against so-called wokismo<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSome participants placed reproductions of the removed works outside the museum, bringing them back into the public space and denouncing their disappearance from the exhibitions as an attempt to silence the stories they represented,\u201d according to Colombia One<\/em>. \u201cThe affected materials included objects and documents related to feminist and LGBTQ+ causes, the history of Colombia\u2019s political left, and the 2016 peace agreement with the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe National Museum has not posted anything related to the protests to its website or social media accounts, but the former does include a notice dated October 6 about damage done to Fernando Botero\u2019s bronze sculpture The Dove of Peace<\/em>. After a visitor knocked over the work while leaning against its pedestal to take a photograph, the museum\u2019s conservation department found abrasions and a loss of paint as well as \u201cdents in the metal, resulting from the impact on different points of the sculpture, especially the beak.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/national-museum-of-colombia-protests-1234802997\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Salas_MNC-55.jpg?w=1000″] Protesters assembled around Bogota\u2019s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects \u201crelated to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,\u201d according to the digital news source Colombia One. As reported, \u201cThe decision by Abelardo De La Espriella\u2019s government, announced last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2209398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}