{"id":6878,"date":"2015-05-28T04:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:34:30","slug":"museodeloro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/05\/28\/museodeloro\/","title":{"rendered":"Museo del Oro"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Niki holds an interview via Skype<\/li>\n<li>Visit to the Bogota Gold Museum<\/li>\n<li>Short visit to the old town of La Candelaria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After we didn&#039;t sleep too well last night, let&#039;s take it easy. Niki prepares for her after breakfast <strong>job interview<\/strong> before and I use the time to mine <strong>Update blog<\/strong>. Then it is Niki&#039;s turn.<br \/>\nThen let&#039;s go to <strong>Plaza Simon Bolivar<\/strong>, which is surrounded by monumental, but not particularly beautiful buildings. Otherwise, the area is more like a chaotic construction site. Soon we will reach our real goal: that <strong>Museo del Oro - the Colombian gold museum.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ultra-modern and - in contrast to Peruvian museums - <strong>inexpensive<\/strong> Museum poses <strong>countless finds of the most diverse pre-Columbian cultures in the country <\/strong>out. Most of them should be completely unknown to the normal citizen such as San Agustin, Tierradentro, Tolima, Calima, Tucamo, Nari\u00f1o, Quimbaya, Zen\u00fa, Tairona, Muisca and Urab\u00e1 y Choc\u00f3. Commonly best known are the mysterious ones <strong>San Agustin rock monoliths <\/strong>or the Tierradentro caves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6883\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=1023893588  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6883\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28.jpg\" alt=\"Gold figure from a bygone era\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold figure from a bygone era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We explore the three-story building with its numerous exhibition halls, which are ultra-modern, but somehow not reach the quality of the Larco Museum in Lima. Not that the finds are less worth seeing or impressive, just everything is there <strong>Presented and staged even more stylishly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6881\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_3.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=720256791  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6881\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_3.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-Columbian art\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_3.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre-Columbian art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Filigree<\/strong> the goldwork, which is up to 5000 years old, always amazes us. For this, the goldsmiths used a method that was as simple as it was ingenious. The basic shape was created from clay and charcoal and then from easily malleable <strong>Beeswax<\/strong> surrounded to work out the details. The entire work of art was then surrounded by clay again. By filling the mold with liquid metal, the wax and the <strong>Figure was cast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6879\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=1978770174  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6879\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_1.jpg\" alt=\"Pottery also finds its place in the museum\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_1.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_05_28_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pottery also finds its place in the museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The stomach growls and we march to BlattSalatHaus, an innovative franchising that offers all sorts of healthy foods. After a cafe we go back to the hostel to plan something.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Niki is holding a preparatory meeting via Skype.<\/li>\n<li>Visit to the Bogota Gold Museum<\/li>\n<li>Short visit to the old town of La Candelaria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>After we didn&#039;t sleep too well last night, let&#039;s take it easy. Niki prepares for her after breakfast <strong>Preparatory meeting<\/strong> before and I use the time to mine <strong>Update blog<\/strong>. Then it is Niki&#039;s turn.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1982,1986],"tags":[2001,892,2002,1985,2003,1987,2004,1988,2005,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-kolumbien","category-bogota","tag-narino","tag-gold","tag-quimbaya","tag-kolumbien","tag-zenu","tag-bogota","tag-tairona","tag-la-candelaria","tag-muisca-und-uraba-y-choco","tag-mueso-del-oro","tag-goldmuseum-bogota","tag-praeskolumanisch","tag-archaeologie","tag-kultur","tag-plaza-simon-bolivar","tag-san-agustin","tag-tierradentro","tag-tolima","tag-calima","tag-tucamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}