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Museo del Oro (“Gold Museum”)
Parque Santander, Carrera 5, Calle 16
Bogotá, Colombia
http://www.banrepcultural.org/museo-del-oro
The Bogotá Gold Museum was created in 1939 and houses archaeological objects of gold, pottery, bone, shell, stone, and textiles. The extraordinary quality of its collection of pre-Hispanic goldwork, the largest in existence, makes it unique in the world. It was established by the Central Bank of Colombia, to which the museum belongs, to save metallurgical pieces from being destroyed or removed to museums and private collections in other parts of the world, especially Europe and North America. From its foundation, the museum has valued the unique and artistic nature of the objects and their importance to Colombians as representations of a common past. The Gold Museum is by nature a national museum, the most important museum of anthropology and archaeology in the country, being, from its creation, the leading institution in museology,...
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Botero, C.I. 2005. Los conceptos y las miradas a la metalurgia prehispánica de Colombia, las exhibiciones permanentes del Museo del Oro 1940-1968. Journal de la Societé des Américanistes.
Bray, W. 1978. The gold of El Dorado. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Royal Academic of Arts.
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Londoño, E. 1989. Santuarios, santillos, tunjos: Objetos votivos de los muiscas en el siglo XVI. Boletín Museo del Oro 25: 93–119.
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Archila, S. (2020). Gold Museum (Museo del Oro). In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1250-2
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