The Gold Museum (Spanish: El Museo del Oro) is a museum located in Bogotá, Colombia.

The museum displays a selection of Pre Hispanic gold work — the biggest collection in the world — in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors. Together with other pottery, Rock geologystone, 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 museum has a collection of 55,000 pieces.^{[citation needed]} 6,000 pieces are on display in their expanded building. There are bilingual descriptions of almost all exhibits. On the first floor is the museum's main entrance, the shop and a restaurant, The Gold Museum Restaurant and Café.

On the second floor the exposition begins, the Main Room is called People and Gold in pre-Hispanic Colombia. Through its glass cases it displays the goldsmith work of the different cultures which inhabited Colombia before the Spanish people arrived; the room is divided into different halls for every culture; Calima, Quimbaya, Muisca, Zenu, Tierradentro, San Augustín, Tolima, Tayrona and Uraba, and a special room called After Columbus (Despues de Colón).

The exposition continues on the third floor, with The Flying Chamanic and The Offering. The first shows the process of Chaman's Ceremony with its different gold pieces, the second is divided into three parts; the Offering Room, the Offering Boat, and the Lake.

At the end of the exposition, there is a Profunditation Room with artistic videos about the most important gold pieces of the museum.

Via wikipedia