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Amazonian Legacies: Art and Archaeology
Ceramics, funerary urns and a virtual visit to the rock art of Chiribiquete trace 13,000 years of Amazonian history.
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You step into a room where jaguars and piranhas painted on Colombian cliffs are projected around you to a soundscape. They come from Chiribiquete, a UNESCO site the museum calls the "Sistine Chapel of the Ancients", and the installation is as close as most people will get to rock art deep in the rainforest.
The rest of the show argues that the Amazon was never untouched wilderness. People have lived there for at least 13,000 years, and the evidence here is painted funerary urns from Brazil, rare cacao bottles from Ecuador and a laser-scan map of a settlement hidden under the forest. Body painting and jewellery connect those finds to communities living there now. Before Sprüngli, Ecuador already had dedicated cacao bottles.
No reviews have appeared yet. Tickets are CHF 18 (CHF 14 reduced), free for under-16s, and the museum stays open until 8pm on Thursdays.
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Funerary urns, painted ceramics and a virtual visit to the rock paintings of Chiribiquete, a Colombian site almost nobody is allowed to enter. The show spans 13,000 years of people living in the Amazon.
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The Chiribiquete installation
Look for the projected rock paintings from the Colombian rainforest, with jaguars and piranhas moving across the walls to a soundscape.
The Napo funerary urn
A ceramic burial urn of Ecuador's Napo culture, lent by the archaeological museum in Orellana, is the face of the show.
The Guarita urn lid
A painted lid from Brazil's Guarita tradition, made between about 800 and 1600 CE, from the Rietberg's own collection.
The Wapula LiDAR map
A laser scan of part of the Wapula settlement in Ecuador's Upano valley shows the outline of a town under the forest canopy.
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- Visitas de noche
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Con niños
Children and teenagers under 16 get in free.
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- Amazonian Legacies: Art and ArchaeologyCourtesy of Museum Rietberg
- In der Sonne sitzenFoto: Studio Massimiliano Rossetto
- The Architecture of PowerCourtesy of Pavillon Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum)
- Christoph Hefti: The Missing Cat and Other Textile StoriesCourtesy of Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse
- Museum RietbergIkiwaner / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Völkerkundemuseum der Universität ZürichPhilipp Dallais / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Helmhaus ZürichRoland zh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pavillon Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum)Roland zh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0