PRESENTED BY: LAURA SOFIA ARENAS BONILLA
SCHOOL: JOSE FRANCISCO SOCARRAS
CLASSROOM: 10-05
The Gold Museum of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia is an open public institution whose purpose is the acquisition, preservation and exhibition of pieces of jewelry and pottery from indigenous cultures of pre-Columbian period of the current Colombia. It is located on the corner of 16th Street with 5ª race on the eastern side of the Santander park, in the historic center of Bogotá.
SCHOOL: JOSE FRANCISCO SOCARRAS
CLASSROOM: 10-05
The Gold Museum of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia is an open public institution whose purpose is the acquisition, preservation and exhibition of pieces of jewelry and pottery from indigenous cultures of pre-Columbian period of the current Colombia. It is located on the corner of 16th Street with 5ª race on the eastern side of the Santander park, in the historic center of Bogotá.
It has pre-Hispanic gold collection of the world's largest with about thirty-four thousand pieces of gold and tumbaga, about twenty-five thousand objects in ceramic, stone, shell, bone and textiles. Exposed pieces of different seated indigenous cultures in today's Colombia before the arrival of Europeans, among which the Calima, Muisca, Nariño, Quimbaya, the Sinú Tairona, San Agustín, Tierradentro, the Tolima, among other things.
