Museo de Jade | Things to Do in San Jose, Costa Rica
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Museo de Jade is an archeological museum in San Jose founded in 1977 by Fidel Tristan Castro. The museum has an extensive and diverse collection of pre-Columbian artifacts that include stone tables, ceramics, adzes, ceremonial heads, and other decorative pieces, covering the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. The museum collection covers not only a large range of jade artifacts and jewelry but also uses them to explain why the precious stones were so revered in pre-Columbian times as well as how they were traded and used. The museum occupies only one floor of its current building and has only five rooms, each covering a different archeological and anthropological theme. Besides jade, the museum has a collection of ceramic, stone, and gold objects and much more.

Calle 13 y 13 bis, Provincia de, Av Central, San José Province, San José, Costa Rica, Phone: +5-06-25-21-66-10

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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