Bogota`s Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) houses the finest collection of pre-Columbian gold on the continent, boasting 33,000 individual pieces, from simple earrings to some of the most beautifully crafted masks and figures in the world.
Despite the extensive pillaging of pre-Columbian art by the conquistadores and the mass exportation of South American gold from the 17th to the 19th centuries, many magnificent works of art created by the region`s indigenous cultures before the European invasion still remain.
