| MARQUIS OF SAINT GEORGE HOME – Archeological Museum Home | |
| Carrera 6 No. 7-43 Teléfonos:
243 0465 – 243 1048 www.musarq.org.co |
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| The house is a great domestic colonial
architecture sample holding abundant elements from the time: wooden door,
entrance alley, main patio, fountain and wall painting. Besides, the house
preserves the most important Pre-Columbian ceramic collection existing in
the country. Ongoing indigenous Tumaco, Calima, Quimbaya, Tierradentro,
Muisca, Tairona, Nariño and Sinú, amount other cultures work
exhibition. Pre-Spaniard cultures death rites, environment and power expressions
rooms. Operating in such way the house opened its doors on June 15, 1973,
(built late in the XVII century), when Banco Popular restored the house
after acquiring it from "Adoratrices" Nuns in 1970. Named Marquis
home after his first owner who kept the house 48 years. |
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