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Banco de la República joins Bogotá’s Museum Night with Art, Culture, and Creativity

By Richard Emblin - October 24, 2024

The Banco de la República’s cultural spaces will participate in Bogotá’s Museum Night on Friday, November 8, by extending the hours of its venues, including the Museo del Oro, Museo Casa de Moneda, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Casa Republicana, Museo Botero, and Casa Gómez Campuzano.

The gold raft exhibited in the Gold Museum of Bogota.

Bogotá’s Gold Museum to temporarily close its legendary “Offering” Room

By The City Paper Staff - August 28, 2024

Bogotá’s Gold Museum will temporarily close its iconic “Offering Room,” home to the Muisca Raft, for renovations starting October 7, 2024, with a planned reopening in mid-December, promising an enhanced visitor experience.

Gold pendant "man-Lobster" from the Zenú culture. Photo: Banco de la República.

More than Gold: Colombia’s gilded heritage opens in Zurich’s Rietberg Museum

By The City Paper Staff - March 16, 2024

The Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, will host ‘More Than Gold: Splendor and Thought of Indigenous Colombia’, featuring over 400 artifacts from the Gold Museum collection.

A Century in Stamps: Banco de la República’s Philatelic Tribute

By The City Paper Staff - October 6, 2023

Celebrating a century of cultural heritage, Banco de la República honors its legacy with a philatelic collection, showcasing Colombia’s patrimony in stamps.

An App to explore Bogotá’s legendary Gold Museum (Museo del Oro)

By Richard Emblin - June 18, 2020

The Museo del Oro (Gold Museum) has created a free App for audiences beyond the reach of the capital, showcasing the best of its pre-Columbian collection. Links provided.

The director of Bogotá’s Gold Museum talks about the 80-year collection

By Richard Emblin - October 30, 2019

Archaeologist María Alicia Uribe is in charge of conserving one of the most impressive gold collections in the world as director of Bogotá’s Museo del Oro.

Midwifery: The healing hands of history at the Gold Museum in Bogotá

By Charlotte Harrison - July 10, 2019

The Gold Museum’s latest exhibit looks at the role of midwifery on Colombia’s Pacific coast, through ancient rituals and modern practices.

A French slave ship docks at Bogotá’s Gold Museum

By Charlotte Harrison - March 20, 2019

The Museo del Oro’s temporary exhibit A Bordo de un Navi?o Esclavista looks at the transatlantic slave trade on board La Marie-Séraphique.

Bogotá’s Museo del Oro heads to South Korea’s National Museum

By The City Paper Staff - July 25, 2018

The Gold Museum of Bogotá is curating the first-ever showing at the National Museum of South Korea with its rare collection of gold artifacts.

Esto tiene arreglo? Gold Museum presents beauty in the broken

By Jacqueline de Klerk - July 17, 2018

Many artifacts have more anthropological value once they are broken, and the focus of the
Gold Museum’s latest exhibition.

Museo del Oro Bogotá by Guillermo Vasquez

Bogotá’s Museo del Oro: Where Gold is eternal

By Richard Emblin - February 28, 2013

Covering centuries of Pre-Colombian history, the Gold Museum is a must experience for anyone visiting Bogotá.