What is his house like?

The house of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer where he lived his childhood, is now a museum where they recreated the rooms that existed during this period. This museum house has 14 rooms with the characteristic of the Caribbean homes of the first half of the 20th century. The rooms of the house were named according to the same Gabo It is important to emphasize that the house where the nobel lived his childhood was demolished more than 40 years ago, reconstruction was done from several sources, this project allowed to recreate characteristics of the architecture of the region, the research sought to recover the Cultural scope and the distribution of the rooms according to the description of the nobel in his autobiography.It has the following spaces

·         Grandfather's Office

·         Visiting rooms

·         Silver workshop

·         The hospital room

·          Dining room

·         Reception room

·         Corridor of the begonias

·         Gabo's childhood room

·         the storage room

·         Kitchen and pantry

·         Yard and its Furniture

The restoration project, which is actually a metaphor of the original construction, was led by experts Juan Carlos Rivera, Ernesto Moure Erazo and Patricia Caicedo, and the museographic script was written by Alberto Abello, Patricia Iriarte and Ariel Castillo, with the Active participation of the poet Jiménez from the participation of the Aracataca culture. Jiménez was in charge, in large part, to put the "wheels" to the museum, as he calls it, so that the visitor finds in each room the relation of the place to the work of the writer. He also obtained the trunks, armchairs, piano and other decorative and furniture elements, in the style of those used at the beginning of the last century, to impress the atmosphere of Gabo's childhood. Today the persons in charge of the administration and maintenance of the museum is the University of Magdalena, under the National MuseumWhen Gabo was a child, I enjoy each of the spaces of his house, in the house museum you can enjoy each of the spaces, remember the times and the beautiful architecture that they recreated to resemble the house where Gabo lived his childhood