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METALLURGY METALWORKING PEOPLE AND HISPANIC GOLD IN

COLOMBIA EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS

ROOM OFFERING COSMOLOGY AND SYMBOLISM CONSULTING ROOM

EXPLORATORY TERRACE SCREENING ROOM EDUCATIONAL

WORKSHOPS

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

: NO SERVICE ON MONDAYS

TUESDAY TO SATURDAY 09:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m.. SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS 10:00 a.m. to 04:00 p.m.

Tuesday to Saturday, $ 3,000Holidays, $ 3,000Sundays free entry for all.

BE PHOTOGRAPHED AND VIDEOTAPED DISPLAYS WITHOUT USING FLASH OR TRIPOD AND FOR PRIVATE USE.FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY SHOTS OR VIDEO, OR IF YOU ARE A JOURNALIST

METALLURGY, AND TECHNOLOGIES IN GENERAL, ISINTERTWINED WITH THE WORLDVIEW, POLITICS,ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. WHENPOPULATIONS OF COLOMBIA GOLDSMITHS CHOSETHE MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUESAND THE ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION, THEYDID NOT ONLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OFTECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS, BUT ALSO ANDMAINLY BY CULTURAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS. BUTWHILE IT WAS A PRODUCT, METALLURGYTRANSFORMED SOCIETY.

IN THE ROOM THE METALWORKING

PROCESSES ARE DISCOVERED MINING,

SMELTING AND METAL WORKING BEHIND

EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE METAL

OBJECTS FROM THE MUSEUM OF GOLD

THE GOLDSMITH, ALSO A MINER, BECAME

THE MATERIALS GIVEN TO THEM BY

NATURE TO CREATE THESE TIMELESS

WORKS OF ART THAT MAKE THEM WORTHY

OF ADMIRATION.

DESHACER CAMBIOS

THE GOLD MUSEUM COLLECTION, STARTED IN 1939 BY THE CENTRALBANK, BRINGS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE OF HUMAN GROUPS THATLIVED IN COLOMBIA FOR 2500 YEARS UNTIL THE EUROPEAN CONQUEST.WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE, HOW THEY LIVE?, WHAT WERE THEIR BELIEFSAND TRADITIONS, HOW THEY RELATED TO THE ENVIRONMENT?THE ROOM PEOPLE AND GOLD IN PREHISPANIC COLOMBIA OFFERS AJOURNEY FROM SOUTH TO NORTH BY MEXICO TO LEARNCLIMATES, ENVIRONMENTS AND ANCIENT SOCIETIES AND CULTURESTHAT LIVED ON THE MOUNTAIN RANGE OF THE ANDES AND THEPACIFIC COASTAL AND CARIBBEAN REGIONS WHERE FORMERLY WORKEDMETALS.

AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED BY HIKERS IN THE ICE AGE. THE POLAR CAPS WERE THEREFORE USED FROZEN BERING STRAIT

THAT SEPARATES ASIA FROM AMERICA. HUMAN GROUPS WHO HUNTED ANIMALS AND GATHERED NUTS AND SHELLFISH

BECAME CONTINENT WITHOUT REALIZING. HERE THEY FOUND LARGE AREAS WITH RICH AND DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS THAT

PROVIDED THEM SUSTENANCE. FOR MILLENNIA DID NOT REQUIRE CULTIVATION BUT LIVED WHAT NATURE GAVE

THEM, MOVING INTO ITS TERRITORY TO GO TO PLACES TO HUNT OR TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PLANTS AT THE TIME

THEY KNEW WAS HARVESTING.

IN COLD IN ALTIPLANICESANDINASY VOUCHERSNARIÑO ECUADOR ANDNORTHERN, INHABITEDCOMPANIES FARMERS,HERDERS AND TRADERSFROM 400 UNTIL 1600D.C

FROM 600 A.D. THE EASTERN RANGE WAS GRADUALLY OCCUPIED BY VARIOUS VILLAGES THE CHIBCHA

LINGUISTIC FAMILY, ORIGINATED IN CENTRAL

AMERICA.

SPANISH CALLED THE INLAND OF KNOTS MOUNTAINOUS NORTHEASTERN DEEP CANYONS CAUCA DEPARTMENT WHERE MOUNTAINS FELT ENCLOSED. FROM 1000 B.C. COMPANIES LIVED THERE FARMERS AND POTTERS.

URBA REGION HAS MANY WAYS FOR MOBILIZATIONAND TRADE. URABÁ GOLDSMITHS DEVELOPEDCONFIGURE DECORATIONS FEMALEPACIFIC CHOCO, ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS RICH GOLD,MADE WITH STICKS SCHEMATIC FIGURES,DECORATIONS AND FEATHERS MASKS.

FROM 200 TO. C., CHIEFDOMSDEAGRICULTORESCONTRUYERON A HYDRAULICSYSTEM OVER 1300 YEARSTAMING FLOODS IN THECARIBBEAN LOWLAND

HIGH HILLS MIDDLE RIVER AND NEARLY PRESERVES

VESTIGES CALIMA 9000 YEARS OF SETTLEMENT. IN CERAMICS

JARS SEEN THE FARMERS OF PHYSICAL AND ITS PEOPLE

ACTIVIDAES.

IN THE MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE ANDSILVER VALLEY, AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE MAGDALENARIVER, FROM 1000 BC SMALL COMPANIES FORMATIVEPERIOD SAW THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL HIERARCHIES.

WARM VALLEY IN THE MIDDLE OF MAGDALENA RIVER AND THE

VERDIENTES CENTRAL AND EASTERN CORDILLERAS IN NORTHERN HUILA

AND TOLIMA, ARE THE TRACES LEFT 16,000 YEARS AGO BY GROUPS

DEDICATED TO HUNTING, FISHING AND RECOLECIÓN .

IN THE VICINITY OF POPAYAN FOUND PECTORALS, HANGERS AND PINS A CHARACTERISTIC STYLE CALLED CAUCA. WERE

CREATED AND USED BY COMPANIES NEAR TIMES AND THE CONQUEST REPRESENT

COMBINATIONS OF MEN, BIRDS AND FROGS WHICH PROBABLY HAD RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE.

THE NORTHWEST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA WAS

INHABITED BY GROUPS OF GOLDSMITHS, CRAFTSMEN AND BUILDERS NAHUANGE DURING

PERIODS AND TAIRONA

IN FLOOD PLAINS ANDMANGROVES PACIFIC COAST.SANDS OF RIVERS OBTAINEDFOR GOLD AND PLATINUMDELICATE ORNAMENTS ASPENDANTS, TIARAS ANDNARIGERAS.

FOR TWO MILLENNIA BEFORE THE CONQUEST OF CAUCA WAS INHABITED BY FARMERS AND MINERS OF GOLD AND SALT, POTTERS AND GOLDSMITHS.

COSMOLOGIES LOCATED THE SOCIETY AND ITSSURROUNDINGS IN THE UNIVERSE. ALL THINGSACQUIRED A PLACE AND A MEANING, AND ENTWINED INA DEEP SYMBOLISM. MYTHS TOLD THAT AT THEBEGINNING OF TIME, THE CREATORS GAVE PEOPLE THENECESSITIES OF LIFE.THE LIVING TREASURES COSMOLOGY AND SYMBOLISMTEACHERS SEVERAL OBJECTS FROM THE COLLECTIONSOF THE MUSEO DEL ORO BANK OF THE REPUBLIC, BYTHE WAY, INSIDE A VAULT. BUT THE VALUE STOREDHERE IS THAT OF INDIGENOUS THOUGHT THAT GAVEMEANING AND RATIONALE FOR THESE MAGNIFICENTOBJECTS.

THE INDIGENOUS COSMOGONIES ASSIGNED A SUPERNATURAL ORIGIN TO WHAT HAPPENS IN THE UNIVERSE: A DISASTER IS CAUSED BY AN ANGRY SPIRIT, THE DISEASE IS SENT BY AN

ENEMY SHAMAN. TO CONTROL THESE DANGEROUS FORCES AND AMBIVALENT, MEN ACTED ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE

ANCESTORS AND MADE OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES: GIFTS OF GOLD, EMERALDS, COCA, BIRDS AND HUMANS, SPIRITUAL FOOD

THAT PLEASED THE IMMORTALS.PRIESTS OFFERINGS DEPOSITED IN SACRED PLACES OF

COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER WORLDS. THE SPIRITS HAD REVEALED BEFORE THE CONTENT, TIME AND PLACE SUITABLE

FOR GIFT. IN STOUT POLES, PRACTICED HUMAN SACRIFICE. THE VICTIM, HIS BLOOD FED HOME-LIVING BODY OF THE CHIEF.

The Gold Museum offers to the public a room entirely new both in its content and in its concept, called the Exploratorium. Located on the fourth floor, this is a space that encourages each visitor to interact with the exhibits, and to that end proposes surprising elements like videos projected on the floor, on which images walks or models representing different aspects of everyday life muiscas.

The workshops are on Saturday mornings or on holidays. The boys and girls are to small or large, young or young at heart. Others may come whole family: children, parents and grandparents, because it is very pleasant to spend a morning sharing an unforgettable experience in the Gold Museum