This album follows on from Bogotá 4: Colonial Bogotá II
The Colombian central bank has a Gold Museum which is very popular. It‘s all gold objects made by Indios in Colombian territory in the 2,000 years or so preceding the arrival of the Spaniards. The museum is HUGE. Hundreds of glass cases displaying what feels like at least 10,000 objects all neatly labelled and explained. Halfway through you catch yourself feeling some sympathy for the Spaniards who of course unceremoniously melted even more of the stuff down. Most of these objects it turns out were really mass-produced, with greater importance attached to their symbolic or ritual value than to artistic quality. (This of course is my view, not the museum‘s!)















Next album — Tunja