Colombian Archaeology Museums
An overview of Colombian archaeology museums allows us to examine the place of archaeological research in this Latin American society and to understand how it is used in the talks presented to visitors. The museums are analyzed according to three components: encyclopaedic, anthropological and scientific. The exercise highlights a pre-Hispanic past as a prelude to today’s Colombian society that ignores the colonial past, and an avowed desire in the 1991 Constitution to better reflect the country’s multiculturalism, which is still slow to materialize in state museums.