Plan Nacional de Cultura 2024 – 2038, cultura para el cuidado de la diversidad de la vida, el territorio y la paz.

Abstract

Approaching Colombian cultural policies implies recognizing the various historical configurations around it. As a point of reference, the author Bravo (2014), historically dialogues and traces a line of cultural events. A first approach was constituted in the eighteenth century, in the colonial era with the research in natural history: Botanical expedition of the New Kingdom of Granada since April 30, 1783 sponsored by the Spanish crown and led by the Spanish physician, botanist, mathematician and priest, José Celestino Mutis. Its importance lies not only in the creation of a herbarium of more than 2,000 plants, a collection of plates and an astronomical observatory. This initiative, “was a fundamental milestone in the construction of the concept of nation, since the inventory of resources, and the description of the people contributed to the knowledge of the country and the appropriation of the cultural and social heritage” (Bravo, 2014, p. 50) which was then framed in the creation of the National Library in 1777 and the approach to geographical and cultural studies of the Italian Agustín Codazzi.