However, the slowness in making decisions by the Antioquia authorities led him to accept the proposal of the then mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa, to donate his collection to the nation via its central bank.

[8] Highlights of the permanent collection include works by Balthus, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Claude Monet, and Henri Matisse.

[5] The collection of works by Fernando Botero includes numerous oil paintings, drawings, pastels, sanguines and sculptures made by him, especially during the most recent decades.

[9] The collection includes a Boterian version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, identified by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia as one of the most important Botero paintings.

[10] The collection also includes a part of the first series on violence in Colombia (Pablo Escobar, Tirofijo, Carrobomba, La massacre de Mejor Esquina, etc.