Welcome to the Banco de la República Gold Museum! The Gold Museum invites you to find out about the ancient inhabitants of Colombia, about the people who lived in the country before the first Europeans arrived. People 2,000 or 500 years ago who worked metals, used them, symbolised them, and then offered them up in order to bring about life and equilibrium in the world.
Galleries:
This audio guide explains the four permanent galleries, which you can see on a visit that will last three hours. Or you might like to choose to observe one gallery in detail today, and then simply pass through the others, seeing and listening to what most catches your attention.
Gallery 1: The Working of Metals
In the Working of Metals gallery, you will find an explanation of how indigenous groups produced metal objects.
Gallery 2: People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia
In the People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia gallery, you will get to know ancient societies as you travel through a land rich in diversity.
Gallery 3: Cosmology and Symbolism
In the Cosmology and Symbolism gallery, you will see some of the Museum's masterpieces and get to know their mythical meanings, together with ancient ways of viewing the world.
Gallery 4: The Offerings
Leave The Offerings gallery for the end: this is a small gallery that will become engraved in your memory.
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