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Museums

The idea to preserve and to show to the relics and historical reports of a culture, is part of the tasks of the museums in the world.

Perhaps the activity with more social projection is the educative and modeling role of the museum, from there comes the importance in the world-wide scope of this type of institution, that more than just a display window must be part of the didactic process of the citizen formation.Costa Rica has a great collection of relics as test of the cultural wealth of our town and that are as well the base for the process of development of our country, as much in the archaeological investigation as in the artistic and technological creation, and also the preservation and restoration of our National Patrimony.

The National Museum founded on 1887, is located in a national monument as it is it the Bellavista Quarter. In it you can find a great archaeological collection and a seemingly endless number of legacies of our ancestors.

Collections
Archaeological: The Museum counts on a collection of 45 000 pre-Columbian objects of stone, ceramics, gold, jade and others. Artistic: Paints and sculptures, Sacred Art. Historical: Old documents, stamps, textiles, arms, numismatist, and furniture. Natural: The National Herbaria consists of 190 000 units. · Insects, 60 000 units. · Birds of Costa Rica, 10 000 units. · Mast zoology. · Rocks, fossils, mollusks and vertebrates.
The Museum of Costa Rican Art
gathers a select collection of paintings and sculptures of national artists since 1950. It also it has the "Room of Gold". It occupies the old Airport of the Savannah building, it's an architectonic work of colonial cut.
Museum of the Coffee.
.Located to the north of the Church of Barba of Heredia. It stores since 1977 the tradition of the industry of the coffee in an adobe house that's 150 years old
Museum of Gold.
Located underneath the Plaza de la Cultura. It contains one of the most beautiful collections of indigenous gold devices. More than 2000 objects are exhibited in this space. The valuable artistic and archaeological treasures show the great formal and symbolic wealth that the Costa Rican natives created
Numismatic Museum.
It's found next to the Museum of Gold and contains a collection of bills and old coins worldwide.
Museum of Jade.
Located in the building of the National Insurance Institute (INS). It contains a great collection of archaeological pieces of ceramics and stone made by our indigenous ancestors
Museum Juan Santamaría.
This museum shows and protects a collection of devices, documents and works of art related to the heroic feat of our National Hero, Juan Santamaría (1856). It is found in the city of Alajuela

Museum of the Children.
Occupying the building of the old Penitentiary, "the Peni" as people were used to call it, mainly contains the new concept of "Interactive Museum" dedicated to the interest of the children. It gathers a modern collection of technological advances and educative aspects of sciences and investigation. It is a place where the children and adults can learn while playing. It is first in his class in Central America and counts with 32 interactive exhibitions. They develop educative-cultural, recreational, artistic and scientific activities permanently.
Museum of Natural Sciences.
It is located in the old La Salle School. It maintains a dissected animal collection in recreated scenes of natural atmospheres; in addition to archaeological pieces and mineralogy.
Museum of Entomology.
It is found in the basement of the School of Musical Arts of the University of Costa Rica. It contains an immense and interesting collection of approximately a million insects of Costa Rica and rest of the world.
Museum of Contemporary Art.
Educative services related to the contemporary art and design. There is a video library with more than 150 videos on these topics. Guided visits through didactic exhibition, workshops, seminaries and conferences are offered in the course of the year.