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Architect：Yemail Arquitectura

Location：Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca, Colombia; | ;View Map

Project Year：2024

Category：Museums

The Monumental Underground Museum is located in two chambers inside the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá, 180 metres underground and a few metres from the underground church. The importance of the whole complex of the Cathedral lies not only in its religious value but also in its heritage, cultural, environmental and social value.

With the intention of preserving and revitalising the historical values of this extraordinary place, the idea is to create a Museum of Monumental Sculpture that will recover its architectural, spatial and symbolic qualities with an intervention that respects the authenticity of the Cathedral and the mine since the masterful work of the architect Roswell Garavito Pearl in 1990.

Conceived to house a series of works by 22 sculptors from 19 world-renowned countries who were invited to Colombia to work directly on the site, the Museum seeks in essence to recover the profound meaning of the Salt Cathedral and link it to the experience of contemporary art.

Occupying two adjoining chambers intercommunicated by a tunnel, the museum contains a series of bas-reliefs carved into the side walls of the chambers, an area for displaying the marble sculptures, an area for temporary exhibitions and a circular amphitheatre for holding cultural events; in addition, the museum is complemented by a themed café and a shop for the sale of art objects related to the museum itself.

A large stage of monumental modern art sculptures is thus proposed, activated by singular events and pauses in the route. The works have been arranged on two platforms that allow the sculptures to stand out and which - like the essential pieces of a larger work of art - lean on, overhang or fly over the podiums and are inscribed on the walls to be contemplated by visitors from different and unexpected angles and points of view.

Works and events strategically occupy the space of the two chambers under the effect of a constellation of lights which, without altering the genius loci of the mine, enhance it and give it a renewed meaning by combining the space created by the work of the miners in excavating the mine with the works achieved by the precise work of the sculptors, together with the work achieved with the concrete by the builders and the precise arrangement of all the elements conceived by the architects.

The organic irregularity of the chambers lies in tension with the precise cutting of the stone, the casting and geometric modelling of the concrete, the assembly of the wood, the careful arrangement of events. The Museo Subterraneo Monumental seeks to balance the organic forces of the underground with the geometric forces of the artistic and architectural creation installed in the depths of Colombia's greatest heritage site: the Salt Cathedral.

Promoter: Monumental Underground Museum Society

William Mauricio Duque Corredor - project manager

Jorge Armando Pérez Vergara

Roberto Carlos Roa Cortes

Architectural design, furniture and museography: Yemail Arquitectura

Antonio Yemail Cortés

Ricardo Ernesto Daza Caicedo

María Natalia Carrero Rojas

Jimmi Camilo Palacio Guarnizo

Oscar Fernando Parga Quevedo

Structural design: Iván Vergara

Lighting design: ESPELLA GROUP SAS

Geotechnical study: Luis Felipe Carrillo

Electronic design: Diego Fernando Laverde

Auditor: Asdraldo Contreras

Human security: José Joaquín Álvarez Enciso

Civil works: Estoc Ingeniería SAS

John Alexander Guillen Martin

Ricardo Buitrago Fagua

Luis Fernando Olaya Rocha

Carpentry: Maderas y láminas especiales SAS

Rogelio Pabón Roa

Electrical work: CIEM SAS

José Ignacio Murillo

Metal carpentry: Rusbel Rodríguez

Photography: Leonardo Finotti

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