The Calima Gold Museum

The Calima Gold Museum is an archaeological museum dedicated to the Calima culture located in the historic center of Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The Calima Gold Museum was the ninth museum created by the cultural area of ​​the Bank of the Republic of Colombia in order to show the artistic and cultural expressions of the pre-Hispanic populations.

The museum was inaugurated on May 9, 1991 in order to preserve, investigate and disseminate the archaeological heritage of the region, known under the generic name of Calima culture, and which refers to different human groups that lived during different periods of time. in the Valle del Cauca. Thus, the museum's collection includes 615 pieces of gold, ceramic, stone, wood, shell, bone and ethnographic objects from the Ilama, Yotoco and Sonso cultures. The archaeological pieces of the Malagan culture, also belonging to the Calima archaeological culture, due to their recent discovery and lack of space, are in the Gold Museum of Bogotá.