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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 ...
This is a list of museum collections pertaining to the Muisca. Most of the Muisca artefacts are housed in the Gold Museum, Bogotá, the museum with the most golden objects in the world. Other findings are in the Archaeology Museum in Sogamoso and in the Archaeology Museum of Pasca. Few artefacts are on display outside Colombia.
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.
Gold Museum, Bogotá: Museo del Oro Bogotá: Archeology International Museum of the Emerald Museo Internacional De La Esmeralda Bogotá: Mineral Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum: Casa Museo Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Bogotá: History José Royo y Gómez Geological Museum: Museo Geologico José Royo y Gómez Bogotá: Science Maloka Museum: Maloka Bogotá ...
Bogotá has historical museums like the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum, the Museum of Independence (Museo de la Independencia), the Quinta de Bolívar and the Casa Museo Francisco José de Caldas, as well as the headquarters of Maloka and the Children's Museum of Bogotá. New museums include the Art Deco and the Museum of Bogotá. [citation needed]
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 ]
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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]