Nencatacoa Ritual Gold Mask
Stylized Tairona Bird Pendant
Pectoral with Face and Ornamental Discs
Tierradentro Funerary Mask
Ritual Diadem with Mythic Figure
Avian Pendants in Flight
Ceremonial Pectoral with Face and Earspools
Funerary Mask
Quimbaya Gold Funerary Masks
Zenú Gold Nose Ornaments
Bird-Shaped Staff Finial
Muisca Elite Funerary Adornments
Human-Face Pectoral Ornament
Female Chieftain with Ornaments
Malagana Gold Ritual Ornament
Muisca Gold Offering Figure
Gold Pendant with Human Figure
Tairona Gold Bird Pendant
Muisca Tunjos
Muisca Tunjos
Muisca Ceremonial Scepters
Zenú Pendant with Headdress
Tairona Winged Pendant Figure
Sounding Pectoral Ornament
Quimbaya Gold Disc with Human Face
Muisca Tumbaga Pectoral with Figures and Birds
Muisca Gold Ceremonial Pectoral
Stylized Bat Pendant (Ear Ornament)
Tolima Culture Gold Breastplate
Zoomorphic Ear Ornament Pendant
Bird-Shaped Nose Ornament
Shaman–Bat Transformation Pendant
Geometric Pectoral Ornament
Muisca Gold Miniature Figures
Muisca Ritual Tunjos
Bird-Shaped Copper Pendant
Muisca Gold Miniature Figures
Sinú Ceremonial Gold Attire
Quimbaya Poporo
Quimbaya Ceremonial Breastplate with Warriors
Mantilla and Hair Comb of a Bucaramanga Lady
Spinning Ritual Disc
Muisca Tunjos Ritual Offerings
Gold Ear Spools
Sea Snail Shell
Anthropo-Zoomorphic Pendant
Shamanic Pectoral with Nose Ring
Muisca El Dorado Ritual Raft
Figure with Raised Arms
Zenú Crocodile Amulet
Fish Ornament and Hook
Tolima Miniature Human Figures
Ornaments of a Calima Cacique
Zenú Double-Spiral Pectoral
Muisca Ritual Crown with Dangles
Lizard Amulet
Quimbaya Gold Pectoral with Shamanic Figure
Ritual Necklace with Double Beads
Gold MuseumMuseo del Oro
The Gold Museum in Bogotá was founded in 1939 by the Banco de la República and expanded in 1968 into Colombia’s leading collection of pre-Hispanic goldwork. Its tunjos , pectorals, masks, and animal forms reveal Muisca, Quimbaya, Zenú, and other societies for whom gold was less money than a sacred substance—offered to lakes and ancestors, worn as rank, and used to stage ritual transformation behind the El Dorado legend. For many Colombians, it anchors national memory in Indigenous cosmology and technical brilliance.
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