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What is the museum of romance in Barranquilla 

Founded on December 17, 1986. It is an old Republican-style mansion donated by Carmen Freud, daughter of Julios Freud, a German-American Jew who arrived in Barranquilla at the beginning where objects from the history of the city are kept as memories of pastimes.

The place offers sections with objects that refer to local, regional and national history as well as collections of science and technology, art and ethnography. With some 12,000 pieces that can be visited both independently and through guided tours organized by the institution.

As costumes for the queen of the carnival, a replica of the old street called Camellón Abello, Alfonso Fuenmayor's typewriter on which Gabriel García Márquez wrote his novel “La Hojarasca”, some letters from the liberator Simón Bolívar, photographs, records, collections of old newspapers and other historical objects. 

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Carrera 54 with Calle 59. Located in the former residence of the Freund Strunz sisters, who donated it to set up a museum about the history of the city.
Horario de atención 
9-11: 30am y 2: 30-5: 30pm de lunes a viernes.
Collections
Its collections cover 12,000 pieces.

In the 772 square meters of construction there are countless documents, books, photographs, paintings and objects that are true jewels that rest in the place as a sentimental, pleasant and optimistic testimony of a society like ours, always with desires for improvement.

It consists of 26 spaces distributed over 2 floors
• The first floor is the reception and the North American Colony, Artistic Center, Journalism, German Colony, Camera Company, Camellón Avello Corridor, Arab Colony and Replica of the Municipal Theater rooms.

• Second floor there are four rooms dedicated to the history of Barranquilla from 1628 to the 20th century, the Barrio El Prado Room, the C.U.C. Room, the Patria Room, the Bolivarian Room, the Constituents Room, the Colonia Hebrea Room, the Carioca Room and six rooms dedicated to the Barranquilla Carnival.

Objects
• The piano that belonged to the Emiliani Theater, with the original score of the Barranquilla Anthem, authored by Amira De la Rosa, and which bears the signature of the Panamanian musician Simón Urbina, who directed the first orchestra that played at Club ABC.

• Other pianos that rest in the Romantic Museum is that of Anita Zabaraín, author of the anthem of the Atlantic, placed in the corner dedicated to the Barranquilla School for Ladies; and that of Tica Emiliani, a prominent concert pianist from Barranquilla who lived in Rome.

Amira de la Rosa also has a privileged place in the museum. In a corner is not only a mannequin sitting in a rocking chair (which was hers) wearing one of the dresses that the famous poetess wore, but also her typewriter and sewing machine, on which she learned to make her first stitches. Also the old calculator that he used when he was in charge of the Gabriela Mistral School, which he founded.

• In the house where the Romantic Museum operates, the American Consulate operated in 1920, there is the history, documents and telephones of William Lladd, who founded the first telephone company in the Antilles and Colombia in 1884; On the other hand, the desk and three typewriters from the time that belonged to Julius Freund, vice consul of the United States, are intact.

• A small room, in which you can see religious objects through display cases, and on the other hand photographs and documents, is dedicated to 17 of the most prominent Jewish families that settled in Barranquilla.

• In the largest room in the cultural center, visitors can admire, through several models, the enormous development that the Atlantic capital has had.

• Even Simón Bolívar has his corner in the museum, with the original card that invited him to his funeral, the Junín Medal and a wooden trunk with several horseshoes, which was for his personal use.

• The complete history of the Barranquilla Carnival is recorded with newspaper clippings and photographs of the first queens. One of the attractions are the 30 fantasy costumes that some of the sovereigns wore, which were donated by each of them. For safekeeping, the outfits, which include those of the first Momo kings, are displayed in large glass urns.

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