Ilama Culture Seated Figure Vessel
Vessel with Feline-Serpent Motif
Seated Figure with Cup and Staff
Quimbaya Chief
Quimbaya Mortuary Tray
Female Figure with Perforated Headdress
Quimbaya Vessel-Bearer Figurine
Tumaco Ceremonial Head
Tumaco-La Tolita Stirrup-Spout Vessel
Tumaco Armadillo Effigy Vessel
Ceremonial Yotoco Vessel with Serpent Motif
Ceremonial Vessel with Human Figure
Quimbaya Ceremonial Ceramic Piece
Courtyard of Museo Arqueológico La Merced
Tolima Ceremonial Mask
Seated Tumaco Figure
Seated Llama Figure Vessel
Ceremonial Heads
Anthropomorphic San Augustin Sculpture
Seated Figure with Rectangular Headdress
Seated Couple with Vessel
Yotoco Vessel with Crowned Figure
La Merced Archaeological MuseumMuseo Arqueológico La Merced
La Merced Archaeological Museum is housed in a 17th-c. convent cloister, one of Cali’s oldest colonial survivors, where Spanish stonework frames far older histories of the Cauca Valley and Pacific coast. Its ceramics and carved figures, from Ilama and Tumaco to Quimbaya and beyond, speak of rank, ancestry, and the afterlife, showing how ritual and daily life once intertwined. In the quiet courtyard, the city’s layered past feels continuous rather than sealed off.
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