The Golden Museum is located in the Santtandel Park in the center of Bogota. It was established in 1939 and moved to its current location in 1968. It is now managed by the National Bank of Colombia.
Colombia has produced gold for thousands of years and is known as the "Golden Country". Bogota is the center of the legendary "Golden Country". The Gold Museum is a pearl on the crown of Colombia. The National Bank of Colombia collected gold jewelry, handicrafts, etc. that the Spanish colonists robbed, and founded the first gold museum in the Western Hemisphere in 1939. At first, there were only a few farmers providing 14 exhibits, but later, with the active support of the people from all over the country, it gradually grew to its current scale. Now, 30,000 pieces of goldware used by the Indians for thousands of years are collected, as well as many exquisite pottery and jade products, which reproduce the ancient and splendid national culture and struggle history of the Indians, and their artistic value far exceeds the value of gold itself.
The museum is distributed on three floors, and the exhibits are displayed separately according to different periods and regions. The exhibits in the museum are mainly divided into three categories:
1. The one is a kind man and a believer who has various postures that reflect religious rituals, as well as the vessels that hold offerings during sacrifice to heaven. The various vessels are engraved with patterns such as deer, eagle and toads. The ancient Indians believed that toads were the incarnation of auspiciousness and wisdom. It symbolized a bumper harvest and a large family. At that time, every family worshipped toads.
The second is a decoration on the head, chest and abdomen, with a picture of a person's avatar and birds and beasts engraved on it. It was worn during the prayer of God and during festive festivals. Among them are earrings, nose rings, necklaces, pins, bracelets, anklets, etc.
The third is daily necessities, including pots, cups, bowls, basins, plates, fishing, knives, masks, incense burners, shrines, etc. Among them, the Jimbaya Basin, the Iron Dentero facial makeup, the Jimbaya Ape statue, the Muiska Boat, etc. are all priceless treasures. They are mostly made of gold foil and gold wire. They are rich in styles and superb technology, with simple and elegant style and strong local colors.
Most of these precious works of art are made of gold foil as thin as paper and gold threads as thin as hair. Each piece of gold has images and patterns with certain meanings. The pictures below
were taken in Bogota in May this year.
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This legend brought a catastrophe to the Chibka people. The barbaric Spanish colonists not only looted all the gold of the Chibka people, but also dug up the graves of the civilians and stole the gold products with the funeral. They also turned Lake Guadavida to the sky and "catched all the gold sinking at the bottom of the lake".
Qibucha people believe that gold can preserve the soul, and often stuff gold objects into the belly of the deceased or put them in the coffin for burial. Therefore, it is said that after the king's death, the body was placed on a golden stool, and there were many gold objects for burial.
This is the holy lake - "Lake Guadavida", located 110 kilometers north of Bogota
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