The Gold Museum (Spanish: El Museo del Oro) is a museum in Bogota, Colombia. It shows an extraordinary selection of pre-Hispanic gold work collection – the largest gold spot in the world – in his room on the second and third floors. Together with other pottery, stone, spot gold, shell, wood and textile archaeological objects, was that notions of what made the indigenous cultures a sacred metal, price of gold, testify to the life and thought of different companies, which now as Colombia before contact inhabited was made known in Europe. In 1939, the Bank of the Republic began contributing to the archaeological heritage of Colombia to protect. The property known as Poporo Quimbaya was the first in a collection. It is in the show 65.
The museum houses the famous golden Muisca easy to find in Pasca, Colombia, El Dorado, that the ceremony represents. The heir to the chiefdom of power with a great sacrifice to the gods. In this performance he is in the middle of a raft seen standing, surrounded by the principal chiefs, all adorned with gold and feathers. The museum has a collection of 55,000 pieces. 6,000 items are exhibited in their completed buildings. There are bilingual descriptions of almost all the exhibitions, because the collections are priceless, the museum doesn’t display the gold prices. The first floor is the entrance to the museum, shop and restaurant, the Gold Museum Restaurant and Cafe.
On the second floor, the exhibition begins, the main room called the people and gold in pre-Hispanic Colombia. Through its display, the cutlery from various cultures inhabited arrived Colombia before the Spanish people, the space is divided into different rooms for each crop, Calima, Quimbaya, Muisca, zenu, Tierradentro, San Augustine, Tolima, Tayrona and Uraba and a special room named after Columbus (después de Colón), once again, there’s no gold price displayed.
The exhibition remains on the third floor, with the flying Chamanic and the offer. The first shows the process of Chaman ceremony with its various pieces of gold, is the second in three parts, the supply room, supply boats and more divided. At the end of the exhibition is an artistic Profunditation room with videos of key pieces of gold from the museum.
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