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The Museum of Gold (Spanish: Museo del Oro) is an archaeology museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited touristic highlights in the country. [1] The museum receives around 500,000 tourists per year. [2] The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, and contains the ...
Art Collection of the Bank of the Republic Colección de Arte del Banco de la República Bogotá: Art Bogotá Museum of Modern Art: Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá Bogotá: Art Children's Museum of Bogotá: Fundación Museo de los Niños Bogotá: Children's Fragmentos: Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria Bogotá: Art Gold Museum, Bogotá ...
English: Muisca raft in the Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia. This raft made of gold was found in Pasca, Cundinamarca, in 1969, and is associated with the legend of El Dorado, representing the ceremony that used to take place in Lake Guatavita where the zipa would cover his body in gold dust and drop gold and emerald offerings into the lake.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Gold Museum may refer to: Gold Museum, Bogotá ...
Map of pre-Columbian cultures Poporo Quimbaya in the Gold Museum, Bogotá Colombia Seated gold figure from the Museo de América (Museum of America). Quimbaya artifacts refer to a range of primarily ceramic and gold objects surviving from the Quimbaya civilisation, one of many pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia inhabiting the Middle Cauca River valley and southern Antioquian region of modern ...
The zipa used to cover his body in gold dust, and from his raft, he offered treasures to the Guatavita goddess in the middle of the sacred lake. This Muisca tradition became the origin of the legend of El Dorado. Muisca raft in the Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia Votive objects found at the bottom of Lake Guatavita. British Museum [4]
This culture used alloys with a high gold content. The crest of the bird exemplifies the cast semi-filigree technique - Gold Museum, Bogota. The web of canals was reflected in their art, culture, and symbolic thinking. For the Zenú, the world seemed to be a large wicker-work, on which living beings were placed. This symbolism is reflected in ...
The Muisca raft, together with a large collection of other tunjos, are held at the Gold Museum in Bogotá. The museum’s director, archaeologist Maria Alicia Uribe Villegas, as well as archaeometallurgist Marcos Martinón-Torres, have applied modern techniques to study and preserve over 80 such tunjos at the museum. [ 61 ]