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  2. Gold Museum, Bogotá - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. File:Gold Museum, Bogota (36145671394).jpg - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of Muisca museum collections - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Gold Museum - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Gold Museum may refer to: Gold Museum, Bogotá ...

  6. Review: An engaging LACMA show delves into how ... - AOL

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    The Museum of Gold at the Bank of the Republic in Bogotá is a lender and co-organizer of the LACMA show, where gilded wonders are on display. Review: An engaging LACMA show delves into how ...

  7. List of museums in Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Archeological Museum of Pasca: Museo de Arqueología e Historia Natural de Pasca Pasca: archeology Children's Museum of Bogotá: Fundación Museo de los Niños Bogotá: childrens Gold Museum, Bogotá: Museo del Oro Bogotá: archeology Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum: Casa Museo Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Bogotá: history Maloka Museum: Maloka Bogotá ...

  8. Muisca raft - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  9. Quimbaya artifacts - Wikipedia

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    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 ...