Birthplace of Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela (1643)

Artist/Designer:

Project Location: Caracas, Venezuela

Figure 1 ( Source | Accessed : March 11, 2023 )

Figure 2: Office ( Source | Accessed : March 11, 2023 )

Figure 3: Bedroom ( Source | Accessed : March 11, 2023 | Photographer: Jesús Rincón )

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Figure 7 ( Source | Accessed : March 11, 2023 | Photographer: Sonia261 )

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Figure 11: Front courtyard ( Source | Accessed : March 11, 2023 | Photographer: Jesús Rincón )

Figure 12: Street view ( Source | Accessed : March 11, 2023 | Photographer: Forgroups M )

Style/Period(s):
Spanish Colonial

Primary Material(s):
Paint

Function(s):
Education, Residential Structure, Cultural Center

Related Website(s):

Website for the museum | Accessed : March 13, 2023

Significant Date(s):
1640-1649, 1643, 1780-1789, 1783, 1790-1799, 1792, 1910-1919, 1912, 1916, 1918, 1990-1999, 1999, 2000-2009, 2002

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
BARRIOS, GUILLERMO, and Francisca González Arias. “Small Museums and the ‘Cultural Revolution’ in Venezuela, 2001–2012.” In Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas, edited by Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, 1st ed., 81–85. University of California Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt19rmbt3.20.
LYNCH, JOHN. “The Legacy.” In Simón Bolívar (Simon Bolivar): A Life, 280–304. Yale University Press, 2006. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npnhh.18.
RIVERA, OMAR. “RAPTURE: A ‘Contextual’ and Redemptive Reading of Bolívar.” In Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy: Beyond Redemption, 13–37. Indiana University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs89dcm.5.

Additional Information:
Simón Bolívar was a military and political leader who liberated Venezuela and other countries in Latin America from Spanish colonial rule.

Project Description:
The Casa Natal del Libertador Simón Bolívar is a seventeenth-century house in Caracas, Venezuela, where Simón Bolívar, the hero of Venezuelan and Latin American independence, was born. He was born in the bedroom and lived there for a short amount of time but today the house is a museum to honor and teach about Bolívar.

Building Address:
G33P+RJJ,
esquinas de San Jacinto a Traposos,
Caracas, Distrito Capital,
Avenida Universidad, Venezuela

Supporting Designers/Staff:
Tito Salas - Painter who contributed to the paintings inside the house
Vicente Lecuna - Historian and engineer who helped restore the house

Significant Dates:
The house was completed in 1643.
Bolívar was born in 1783 moved out of the house in 1792.
In 1876 Antonio Guzmán Blanco, the then president of Venezuela at the time and an avid collecter of all things related to Bolívar, bought the house.
In 1912 the government of Venezuela bought the house and between 1916 and 1918 it was restored and embellished.
In 1999, the House and the collection of personal property were declared Assets of Cultural Interest.
On July 25, 2002, it was declared a National Historic Monument.

Associated Projects:

Tags:
Símon Bólivar, Liberator, Birthplace, Museum, Caracas, Venezuela

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