Quimbaya Museum

It displays a large collection of pre-Columbian artcrafts: about 390 gold objects, 104 pieces of pottery, 22 stone sculptures, carved woods, and other objects, mainly from the pre-Columbian Quimbaya civilization, Embera and some other amerindian tribes.

Some of the most important pieces are the gold Poporos (traditional gadgets for chewing coca leaves) and the zoomorphic vases.

Together with other pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile archaeological objects, these items, made of what to indigenous cultures was a sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of different societies which inhabited what is now known as Colombia before contact was made with Europe.

The Bank of the Republic began helping to protect the archaeological patrimony of Colombia in 1939.

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