The Banco de la República Cultural Center in Sincelejo, located in the city center, is a meeting place where services and resources allow visitors to access the physical and virtual collections as well as impact activities. These diverse and relevant offerings promote the development of our academic, artistic, scientific, and cultural program. Our facilities make it possible to consult a broad bibliographic collection and enjoy a variety of exhibitions, concerts, workshops, and conferences. They also proved access to the audiovisual and children's rooms.
Banco de la República’s cultural activity in Sincelejo aims to bring the public closer to reading, visual arts, and knowledge of different genres of music, as well as to strengthen regional cultural identities. Our rich and varied annual program consists of workshops, conferences, concerts, exhibitions, and academic activities. All of these are carried out hand in hand with reading and writing mediation programs. Extension services, principally the traveling book boxes and the Gold Museum’s educational suitcases, typically reach communities thanks to collaboration with other institutions, organizations, and cultural mediators.
History
The presence of Banco de la República in Sincelejo dates back to 1945, when it opened an economic agency in a building owned by Mr. Rafael Vergara Méndez on the former Calle Real. In 1965, the construction of the central bank's offices in the city was completed at Calle 23 # 18 - 30, allowing the agency to become a branch, that is, an entity that provides banking services including treasury, fiduciary, agricultural credit, international exchange and foreign currency, and information on economic statistics.
With the transformation of Banco de la República in the 1990s, cultural services took on a new importance. As of 2002, after a process of resizing, a new scheme of services was implemented, proposing a Cultural Center with services, collections, and consolidated programming. In the same year, the library opened its doors, initially with 8,000 volumes, including 2,000 from the private library of Sincelejo native Pedro E. Herazo, whose high-quality volumes and thematic variety enriched Banco de la República’s collection.
The Banco de la República Cultural in Sincelejo has been contributing to the recovery, preservation, analysis, study, organization, research, and dissemination of the cultural heritage of the region and the nation, for 15 years promoting access to knowledge and establishing a sense of citizenship.
