Museo del Oro

Yesterday we took a taxi to the Gold Museum located in downtown Bogota in a modern building facing Plaza de Santander.  The trip there took 1.5 hours due to the busy traffic.  The Gold Museum is the most famous of its kind in the world and contains more than 34,000 gold pieces from all the major pre-Hispanic cultures in Colombia!  There are 7 floors each with several exhibits for visitors describing how the gold pieces were made, what they were used for in society at the time, and where they were found.  Each piece has a short description in Spanish and in English so we could follow along.  Some pieces date back to 1500 B.C.  There are also objects in stone, bone, clay, and textiles detailing the history of Colombia.