A unique collection of golden masterpieces!
The Banco de la República Gold Museum, in Bogota, Colombia, displays an extraordinary selection of its pre-Hispanic goldwork collection - the biggest in the world. Together with other pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile archaeological objects, these items testify to the life and thought of different societies which inhabited what is now known as Colombia before contact was made with Europe
The purchase of this Quimbaya poporo by the Banco de la República in 1939 constitutes the first serious effort to be made in Colombia to put an end to the destruction of pre-Hispanic goldwork, and safeguard an essential part of the nation’s historical heritage. A masterpiece of metalwork, cast in two pieces by the lost-wax process, this item was the foundation stone of the Gold Museum’s collections
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