Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

The Museo Nacional de Costa Rica in the capital San José informed about the geology, archeology, pre-Columbian, religious, colonial and modern history of Costa Rica.

Issued include pre-Columbian stone tablets and ceramics, to gold objects in the Sala de Oro and in the courtyard some of the stone spheres of Costa Rica.

The building is located diagonally opposite the Asamblea Legislativa, southwest of her. It was built in 1917 for military purposes; the outer walls still show bullet holes from the civil war in 1948.

The museum is adjacent to the south of Avenida 2 - the local name of the Panamericana - and east of the Calle 17 ( mailing address ). Further west of the Plaza de la Democracia and north of the Avenida Central.

The museum also has an exhibition at the Nobel Peace Prize winner Óscar Arias Sánchez of 1987 and a butterfly garden outside the " Plaza de la Democracia " located.