Museo del Oro Precolombino

San José, Costa Rica

The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum (Spanish: Museo del Oro Precolombino, officially Spanish: Museo de Oro Precolombino Álvaro Vargas Echeverría) is a museum in San José, Costa Rica. 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. The gold collection dates from 300 to 400 BC to 1550 AD.

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Nearby

National Theatre of Costa Rica theatre
Monseñor Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez monumenti · 0.2 km away
Curia Metropolitana church · 0.2 km away
cattedrale metropolitana di San José cathedral · 0.2 km away
Melico Salazar Theatre theatre · 0.3 km away
Museo del Jade y la Cultura Precolombina musei · 0.4 km away
Plaza de la Democracia square · 0.5 km away
Murales de Barrio Amon street_art · 0.5 km away