Museo de Metales Preciosos

Not as grand as Bogota or Lima but very well worth a visit

Part of a collection of four museums on Calle Jaén, all for one admission price. Impressive collection of gold and other precious metal from pre-Colombian times. Also copper. Worth about 30 minutes...

A Favourite

Of the four museums I visited, this was a favourite. It was wonderful to see how the precious metals had been used by early civilizations. The metals that have been recovered and preserved are truly...

Small museum with nice items to look at

Went here as part of an organised full day tour with Transturin. Our guide explained that there were four museums in total but that this was the better one to visit so we only went here and I though...

Nice museum but entry...

This museum has a really great collection of metal artifacts, really that part is 5 star. I deducted 2 stars because you have to go to a different museum to buy a ticket for 4 museums to visit this on...

The Magna Fuente Bowl is on display here

In addition to some really nice gold artifacts I saw the Magna Fuente Bowl, a large earthen ware bowl that has been compared to the Rosetta stone since it has both Aymara(?) writing and Phoenician cun...