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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 ...
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design) 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)
Stone spheres of the Diquís exhibited at Museo del Jade. Scientific research in the alluvial plain, particularly on United Fruit Company properties, began in the 1940s with the work of Doris Zemurray Stone and Samuel Lothrop. Lothrop's work focused on excavation at a handful of sites, one being Farm 4.
Museo de los Niños; 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 ...
Facilities include a shop and cafeteria [5] The grounds of the museum include a working plantation producing coffee that is processed on-site for sale to visitors. [6] Museo del Ferrocarril [1] Guatemala City: Guatemala Department: Railway: Museo del Jade y Semana Santa [1] Antigua Guatemala: Sacatepéquez Department: Museo del Libro Antiguo [2 ...
An archetypical baby-face figurine from Las Bocas.. The "baby-face" figurine is a unique marker of Olmec culture, consistently found in sites that show Olmec influence, [4] although they seem to be confined to the early Olmec period and are largely absent, for example, in La Venta.
Museo de América; Museo de Antropología de Xalapa; Museo del Jade; Museo Miraflores; Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología; Museo Popol Vuh; Museo Regional de Arqueología de la Democracia, Escuintla; Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén; Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí; Museum of Belize; Museum of Cultures (Basel) Museum of ...
The museum holds the nation's treasures such as the memorial of Glory and is home to many historical documents of the nation's upbringing, significant events, and tragedies of the nation's past. Built in 1917, the Museum was originally used for quarters for soldiers and held barracks, and was used in the Costa Rica Civil War in 1948. [2] [1]