Archaeological Museum Casa del Marqués de San Jorge

This guide to the Archaeological Museum Casa del Marqués de San Jorge in Bogotá starts with a question: why would a potter spend a lifetime shaping a jar meant only for the dead. It traces the colonial mansion's own turns, from the merchant who built it and the marquis who bought it in 1784, through decades as a convent, to the bank that filled its rooms with thirteen thousand ceramics from the Muisca, Tairona, Quimbaya, Calima and Guane peoples. Look closely at the funerary urns and small figures in the gallery cases as you pass through.