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An Olmec baby-face figurine from the Museo Nacional del Jade. The Museo del Jade is an archaeological museum in San José, Costa Rica. Since 2014, it has been located in front of Plaza de la Democracia. It was founded in 1977 by Fidel Tristán Castro, the first president of the INS. The museum contains the world's largest collection of American ...
It is located in a subterranean building underneath the "Plaza de la Cultura" and is owned and curated by the Banco Central de Costa Rica. The museum has an archaeological collection of 3,567 Pre-Columbian artifacts made up of 1,922 ceramic pieces, 1,586 gold objects, 46 stone objects, 4 jade, and 9 glass or bead objects.
Museo de Jade y Arte Precolombino i San José i Costa Rica; Museo de Jade y Arte Precolombino en San José, Costa Rica; Jade and Pre-Columbian Art Museum in San José, Costa Rica; Source Own work Date 2014-07-08 Author Haakon S. Krohn. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
Museo de Formas Espacios y Sonidos (Shapes, Spaces, and Sounds Museum) Museo de Oro Precolombiano (The Museum of Pre-Columbian Gold) Museo del Jade (Museum of Jade) Museo Filatélico y Numismático de Costa Rica (Philatelic and Numismatic Museum) Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (The National Museum)
Museo del Jade; Museo Nacional de Costa Rica; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design; P. Pre-Columbian Gold Museum This page was last edited on 11 February 2024, at 23
San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and economic activity, and major transportation hub. San José is simultaneously one of Costa Rica's cantons, with its municipal land area covering 44.62 square kilometers (17.23 square miles) [4] and having within it an estimated population of 352,381 people in ...
This is the likely source of both the Olmec and Costa Rican jade. This implies a significant long-distance trade. Postulated by David Mora-Marín there was a direct exchange network between the previously mentioned area in Guatemala (in the Mayan lowlands) and the northwestern/ central areas of Costa Rica between 300 BC and 800 AD, in which ...
Michael Jay Snarskis (April 12, 1945 – January 24, 2011) was an American archeologist who founded the scientific study of archaeology in Costa Rica.At that time, almost all artifacts available to collectors were shorn of their provenance and historical significance by huaquero looters, whom Snarskis described as "the tomb-robbers ... who have [made] such studies more difficult."