Costa Rica Travel Blog

The Costa Rican Jade Museum has recently put out to display over 100 archeological artifacts carved from jade and other stones as well as elaborated from ceramic.

The display is named “Bodies and Faces of the Pre Columbian Past” and will be open to the public from 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday and from 9am to 1pm on Saturdays.  The name of the display is in reference to the exhibition’s main theme which is the anatomy of the region’s indigenous people.

The exhibition will allow visitors to learn not only about how ancestors portrayed the human body through the carving of jade and other stones, but also about their individual and group customs as well as their every day life.

The Jade Museum is still located in the National Security Institute (INS) building but was moved from the 11th floor to the first floor.  The move to the first floor gives the Museum a more visible stance thus attracting more visitors.

The new location within the building has given the Jade Museum a more modern appeal as well as a more adequate space for a more whole and integral display of the archeological pieces.  Visitors can follow a 5 salon display that will tell the story of the Pre Columbian origins, development and legacy.

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