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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 ...
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]
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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 ]
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 ]
Zenú lost wax cast gold earring, AD 800 - San Antonio Museum of Art Lowland Zenú cast-gold bird ornament that served as a staff head, dated 490 CE. This culture used alloys with a high gold content. The crest of the bird exemplifies the cast semi-filigree technique - Gold Museum, Bogota
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 ...