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May 15, 2008

The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

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This is the alone building in Europe adherent alone to Pre-Columbian cultures. Housed in a gothic palace, its accumulating is one of the finest of its affectionate and gives visitors an acumen into the affluent apple of the ancient cultures on the American continent. This tiny, intimist building contains some one hundred pieces, including copse and bean sculptures, ceramics, tapestries, jade, an archaeological ensemble generally begin in all-embracing exhibitions and authority publications. The accumulating is structured about the animal groups which inhabited the area amid Mesoamerica and South America afore the accession of the Spanish. The cultures represented accommodate the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Chavin, Mochica and Inca civilisations.

The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

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