Gold Museum

In the heart of Bogotá, the extraordinary Gold Museum will astound visitors with the largest collection of prehispanic goldwork in the whole world. It's such a special place that, in 2018, National Geographic magazine named it one of the best museums in the history of the planet, next to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (Poland), the Vatican museums (Italy), and the Pergamon Museum. The museum has 34,000 gold pieces, each of which has its own incomparable beauty and historic value. Many of these items were used in the daily life or sacred rituals of indigenous peoples like the "Muisca" and "Tayrona".

The Gold Museum or Museo del Oro is dedicated to Pre Hispanic goldwork and holds a collection of around 55,000 items, 6,000 of which are on display. Naturally, many of the gold items are jewelry items. The most famous item in the museum is not a jewelry item, but the Muisca raft, or El Dorado raft – a pre-Columbian figure of size 19.5 cm x 10.1 cm (4 in x 7.6 in), made mostly of gold. Visit the Gold Museum, one of the incredible jewelry museums and exhibits - don't miss out on visitors' opportunity to learn about these stunningly brilliant pieces of Colombian history.

• Location: Bogotá, Colombia