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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ]
The most noteworthy poporos artifact is the Poporo Quimbaya exhibited in the Gold Museum in Bogotá, Colombia. Cast using the lost wax technique in tumbaga alloy around 300 CE, the 777 gram golden vessel was used as a ceremonial device for consuming lime while chewing coca leaves during religious ceremonies [ 3 ]
Gold Museum may refer to: Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia; Gold Museum (Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan; Gold Museum of Peru and Weapons of the World, Lima, Peru; Toi Gold Museum, Izu, Japan; Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
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 museum sees over 500,000 visitors annually, including 2,000 students per month. [1] The museum is managed by the cultural branch of the Bank of the Republic and is part of La Candelaria cultural complex along with the Gold Museum , the Luis Ángel Arango Library , the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum , and the Museo Casa de Moneda .