The Museum of Colonial Art of Bogota was inaugurated in 1942 in a building of the century XVII that originally belonged to a Jesuit school. The museum exhibits paintings, carvings in wood, furniture, jewelry shop, books and documents of the colonial time. The most important collection of the Museum of Colonial Art consists of 76 oil paintings and 106 drawings of Gregorio Vásquez de Arce and Ceballos, who outside the most important painter of the New Kingdom of Granada.