Amigos MAMM is Renewed to Strengthen the Community Supporting Art in Medellín

The Medellín Museum of Modern Art presents the renewal of its Amigos MAMM program, an initiative that for fifteen years has connected people with art and now moves forward with renewed strength to expand its impact across the city and reach new audiences.

• The Amigos MAMM program celebrates its 15th anniversary by consolidating an active community around contemporary art whose donations have made it possible to bring our educational and cultural programming closer to thousands of children and young people across the city-region.
• This renewal seeks to expand the Museum’s social impact by strengthening educational, exhibition, and public engagement projects.
• Every contribution from Amigos directly supports the Museum’s sustainability and broadens access to art for new audiences.
• Membership and donation programs like this one are essential to the sustainability of museums worldwide and to fulfilling their mission.

Amigos MAMM is an initiative that recognizes that art is not only preserved within collections, but also activated through the people who make it possible. For fifteen years, this program has built a community that extends beyond the Museum’s galleries, connecting artists, audiences, educators, and collectors through meaningful experiences with contemporary art.

The program has played a key role in expanding access to educational processes, mediation programs, and encounters with art for diverse audiences, including children and young people. Its impact is reflected not only in the Museum’s cultural programming, but also in the way it transforms people’s relationship with the institution: from spectators into active participants within the artistic ecosystem.

The renewal of the program responds to the need to expand this reach and strengthen its role as a driver of sustainability. Every contribution from Amigos helps make exhibitions, residencies, educational initiatives, and the growth of the MAMM Collection possible, consolidating a model in which art is sustained by those who choose to support it.

Being part of Amigos MAMM is also a gateway to exclusive experiences within the art circuit: encounters with creators, access to production spaces, and direct participation in the cultural life of the city. More than a membership program, it is a community that understands the museum as a living space for thought, dialogue, and transformation.