List of Muisca museum collections

This is a list of museum collections pertaining to the Muisca. Most of the Muisca artefacts are housed in the Gold Museum, Bogotá, the museum with the most golden objects in the world. Other findings are in the Archaeology Museum in Sogamoso and in the Archaeology Museum of Pasca. Few artefacts are on display outside Colombia. Most of the objects outside Colombia are tunjos; small offer pieces part of the Muisca religion.

## Muisca museum collections

Museum  | City  | Country  | Number of objects  | Type of objects  | Notes

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Gold Museum  | Bogotá  | Colombia  | 1000s  | a.o. Muisca raft  | [1]
Archaeology Museum  | Sogamoso, Boyacá  | Colombia  | 3000  | a.o. replica of Sun Temple  | [2]
Archaeology Museum  | Pasca, Cundinamarca  | Colombia  | a.o. replica of Muisca raft, mummies  | [3]
Metropolitan Museum of Art  | New York City  | United States  | 22  | tunjos, pendants, mask, mold, handle, diadem  | [4]
Museum of Fine Arts  | Houston, Texas  | United States  | 21  | tunjos, pendants, noserings, earrings, beads  | [5]
Cleveland Museum of Art  | Cleveland, Ohio  | United States  | 13  | 9 tunjos, 2 beads, 2 pendants  | [6]
Art Institute Chicago  | Chicago, Illinois  | United States  | 4  | tunjos | [7]
Baltimore Museum of Art  | Baltimore, Maryland  | United States  | 2  | tunjos | [8]
Brooklyn Museum  | New York City  | United States  | 2  | tunjo & yopo tray  | [9]
Dallas Museum of Art  | Dallas, Texas  | United States  | 2  | tunjos | [10]
National Museum of the American Indian  | Washington D.C.  | United States  | 2  | tunjo & ceramic head  | [11][12]
Yale University Art Gallery  | New Haven, Connecticut  | United States  | 1  | pendant  | [13]
Princeton University Art Museum  | Princeton, New Jersey  | United States  | 1  | tunjo | [14]
Denver Art Museum  | Denver, Colorado  | United States  | 1  | ceramic jar  | [15]
American Museum of Natural History  | New York City  | United States  | 1  | tunjo | [16]
Hunt Museum  | Limerick  | Ireland  | 1  | tunjo | [17]
The Israel Museum  | Jerusalem  | Israel  | 1  | pectoral  | [18]
British Museum  | London  | United Kingdom  | 2  | tunjo & mummy  | [19][20]

## See also

* List of Muisca research institutes
* List of Muisca scholars
* Muisca

## References

1. ↑ (in Spanish) Muisca collection at the Gold Museum, Bogotá
2. ↑ (in Spanish) Archaeology Museum of Sogamoso
3. ↑ (in Spanish) Archaeology Museum of Pasca
4. ↑ Muisca collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
5. ↑ Muisca collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
6. ↑ Muisca collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
7. ↑ Muisca collection of the Art Institute Chicago
8. ↑ Muisca collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art
9. ↑ Muisca collection of the Brooklyn Museum
10. ↑ Muisca collection of the Dallas Museum of Art
11. ↑ Muisca tunjo in the National Museum of the American Indian
12. ↑ Muisca ceramic head in the National Museum of the American Indian
13. ↑ Muisca collection of the Yale University Art Gallery
14. ↑ Muisca collection of the Princeton University Art Museum
15. ↑ Muisca collection of the Denver Art Museum
16. ↑ Muisca collection of the American Museum of Natural History
17. ↑ Muisca collection of the Hunt Museum \- "possibly Peruvian" [sic]
18. ↑ Muisca collection of The Israel Museum
19. ↑ Muisca collection of the British Museum
20. ↑ Martínez Martín, Abel Fernando, and Luz Martínez Santamaría. 2012. Sobre la momificación y los cuerpos momificados de los muiscas - On mummification and the mummified bodies of the Muisca. Revista Salud Historia Sanidad 1\. 61-80.

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Topics

| General|

* Agriculture
* Architecture
* Art
* Astronomy
* Calendar
* Cuisine
* Economy
* Mummification
* Music
* Muysccubun
* Mythology
* Numerals
* Religion
* Society
* Toponyms
* Warfare
* Women

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Specific|

* Battle of Pasca (~1470)
* Battle of Chocontá (~1490)
* Chicha
* Duit
* Emeralds
* Muisca raft
* Ruana
* Tejo
* Tunjo
* Zoratama

The Salt People|

* Zipaquirá
* Nemocón
* Tausa
* Sesquilé

Geography and history

| Altiplano
Cundiboyacense|

* Bogotá River
* Frío
* Fucha
* Juan Amarillo
* Soacha
* Teusacá
* Torca
* Tunjuelo
* Bogotá savanna
* Suba Hills
* Wetlands
* Eastern Hills
* Flora & fauna
* Suárez River
* Ubaté-Chiquinquirá Valley

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Neighbouring areas|

* Ocetá Páramo
* Tenza Valley

History|

| Prehistory (<10,000 BP)|

* Lake Humboldt
* El Abra
* Tibitó
* Sueva
* Tequendama

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Lithic (10,000 - 2800 BP)|

* Piedras del Tunjo
* Checua
* Galindo
* Nemocón
* Sáchica
* Aguazuque
* Lake Herrera
* El Infiernito

Ceramic (>800 BC)|

* Herrera (800 BC - 800)
* Early Muisca (800 - 1200)
* Muisca Confederation (~1450 - 1540)
* Cabildo Mayor (>2002)

Religion and mythology

| Deities|

* Chiminigagua
* Bachué
* Chía
* Sué
* Bochica
* Huitaca
* Chibchacum
* Cuchavira
* Nencatacoa
* Chaquén
* Chibafruime
* Guahaioque

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Sacred sites|

| Built|

* Sun Temple
* Moon Temple
* Cojines del Zaque
* Goranchacha Temple
* Hunzahúa Well

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Natural|

* Fúquene
* Guasca
* Guatavita
* Iguaque
* Siecha
* Suesca
* Tota
* Ubaque
* Tequendama Falls

Mythology|

| Myths|

* El Dorado
* Monster of Lake Tota

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Mythological figures|

* Goranchacha
* Idacansás
* Pacanchique
* Thomagata

Caciques and neighbours

| Northern caciques|

| zaque of Hunza|

* Hunzahúa
* Michuá
* Quemuenchatocha
* Aquiminzaque

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iraca of Suamox|

* Nompanim
* Sugamuxi

cacique of Tundama |

* Tundama

Southern caciques|

| zipa of Bacatá|

* Meicuchuca
* Saguamanchica
* Nemequene
* Tisquesusa
* Sagipa

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cacique of Turmequé|

* Diego de Torres y Moyachoque

Neighbours|

| Chibcha-speaking|

* U'wa
* Sutagao
* Guane
* Lache

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Arawak-speaking|

* Achagua
* Tegua
* Guayupe

Cariban-speaking|

* Panche
* Muzo
* Yarigui

Spanish conquest

| Conquistadors|

| Major|

* Gonzalo de Quesada
* Hernán de Quesada
* Baltasar Maldonado
* Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
* Juan de Céspedes
* Juan de San Martín

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Minor|

* Antonio Díaz de Cardoso
* Antonio de Lebrija
* Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano
* Gonzalo García Zorro
* Gonzalo Macías
* Hernán Venegas Carrillo
* Juan de Albarracín
* Juan del Junco
* Juan Tafur
* Lázaro Fonte
* Luis Lanchero
* Martín Galeano
* Martín Yañéz Tafur
* Miguel Holguín y Figueroa
* Ortún Velázquez de Velasco
* Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela
* Pedro Ruíz Corredor

Neighbouring conquests|

* Conquest of the Chibchan Nations
* Conquest of the Muzo
* Conquest of the Panche
* Battle of Tocarema (1538)

Research and collections

| Scholars|

* Acosta
* Acosta Samper
* De Aguado
* Arango
* Broadbent
* De Castellanos
* Celis
* Correal
* Duquesne
* Freyle
* Friede
* Gamboa
* Groot
* Hammen
* Humboldt
* Izquierdo
* Langebaek
* De Lugo
* Ocampo
* De Piedrahita
* De Quesada
* Reichel-Dolmatoff
* Schrimpff
* Simón
* Triana
* Uricoechea
* Zerda

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Publications|

* Elegías (1589)
* El Carnero (1638)
* Epítome (1889)

Research institutes|

* ICANH
* Universidad Nacional
* Universidad de los Andes
* Universidad La Javeriana
* University of Pittsburgh
* UPTC

Collections|

* Museo del Oro
* Archaeology Museum of Sogamoso
* Archaeology Museum of Pasca
* Metropolitan Museum of Art

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