In an official press release last November 24th, the Museo de Antioquia announced the resignation of its director, Ana Piedad Jaramillo Restrepo, effective this December. The now former Director's decision came in response to new professional challenges. Jaramillo Restrepo is resigning after almost five years at the helm of the institution. Since her arrival in 2011, she has pushed forward a process of internationalization in the museum in terms of support, networked action, and process exchange and exhibition. During her tenure, the museum established connections with foundations, non-governmental organizations, embassies, art fairs, and cultural institutions in Brazil, Chile, France, Spain, the United States, Panama, The Netherlands, Portugal, Mexico, Israel, Italy, and Switzerland. Meanwhile, it also enhanced its relationship with Medellin's artistic and cultural organizations, collaborating with them in projects that addressed many different publics. Ana Piedad Jaramillo's administration emphasized the strengthening and creation of inclusive spaces, such as the Cultural Leaders for Development symposium, which brings together national and international cultural management initiatives and allows for the development of leaders and populations across Medellin and Antioquia; or the Accessible Museum program, which develops projects involving populations with special cognitive of physical needs. Along the same lines, it is important to note the creation of exhibition agendas that attract younger audiences and open the museum's doors to minorities, such as the exhibition ORLAN in 2012. At the same time, Jaramillo's tenure set as its mission the recovery of life and public space in the area where the museum is located. This was carried forward through different educational and artistic actions that allow for a citizen appropriation of the area, involving diverse communities, turning the museum into a reference point for the upkeep and enjoyment of downtown Medellin, and participating also in the preservation of the area's architecture and patrimony. One of the first challenges faced by Ana Piedad Jaramillo in 2011, when she assumed the Director's post, was the MDE11, the Medellin International Art Conference. She was also in charge of the celebrations around Fernando Botero's 80th anniversary in 2012, which resulted in the donation to the museum of the Viacrucis. La Pasión de Cristo series, the museum's first-ever internationally itinerant exhibition, which has been seen in Portugal, Panama, Chile, Italy and several Colombian cities. During Jaramillo's period as Director, the museum has also carried out intensive research into and updates to its collection. In this way, it acquired 236 new works, it began the renovation of its permanent galleries, and it opened new exhibition spaces: Sala de Diálogos Interculturales. El Barro Tiene Voz; Sala Pedrito Botero; Bienales de Arte de Coltejer. The museum also created the Plataforma Antioquia exhibition program as part of the Bicentennial celebrations of the Department of Antioquia's independence. It presented critical revision of issues of cultural, racial, and gender identity, as well as the environment, by means of a cycle of four exhibitions presented between 2013 and 2014: Máquinas de vida; Antioquias. Diversidad e imaginarios de identidad; ¡Mandiga sea! África en Antioquia; and Contraexpediciones. Más allá de los mapas. These exhibitions combined the museum's historical art collection and contemporary works, as well as special commissions, thus developing a new methodology for exhibiting the collection: past and present together in the articulation of critical reflections. Over the course of these almost five years, the Mu...