Gold Museum, Bogotá
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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]
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Established | 22 December 1939 |
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Location | Carrera 6 # 15-82 (Parque Santander) Bogotá, ![]() |
Coordinates | 4°36′6.91″N 74°4′19.20″W |
Director | María Alicia Uribe Villegas |
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Website | www |
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The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, and contains the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors. Together with pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile objects, these items, made of a– to indigenous cultures – sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of the different societies which lived in present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas.