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museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

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Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

. Most of the wide selection of museums in Costa Rica are in the Central Valley, especially in the capital city of San José.

List of museums

San José

* Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura ** Museo de los Niños (The Children's Museum) * Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design) *

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(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 Museo Nacional de Costa Rica is the national museum of Costa Rica, located in the capital of San José. It is located at Calle 17, between Central and Second Avenue, Cuesta de Moras. It moved to its current location in 1950.University of Costa Rica The University of Costa Rica (Spanish: ''Universidad de Costa Rica,'' abbreviated UCR) is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America. Its main campus, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, is located in San Pedro Mo ...

* Museo del Colegio Superior de Señoritas (Women's Education and History Museum), * Museo Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (Historical Museum) * Museo Joaquín García Monge (Historical Museum) * Museo Histórico Tecnológico Grupo ICE (Historical Technology Museum) * (La Salle Natural Sciences Museum) * Museo para la Paz

Alajuela Province

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Alajuela Alajuela () is a district in the Alajuela canton of the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica. As the seat of the Municipality of Alajuela canton, it is awarded the status of city. By virtue of being the city of the first canton of the province, it i ...

* Museo Regional de San Ramón, San Ramón

Cartago Province

Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels, Cartago The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (Our Lady of the Angels Basilica) is a Roman Catholic basilica in Costa Rica, located in the city of Cartago and dedicated to the ''Virgen de los Pardos'', officially known as ''Virgen de los Ánge ...

* Museo de Arte Religioso de San José de Orosi, at the (Orosí Church & Religious Museum), Orosi

Guanacaste Province

Museo de Sabanero The Museo de Sabanero is a museum in Liberia, Costa Rica, founded in 1990 by an executive decree issued by President Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier. The museum focuses on cowboy culture in Northwest Costa Rica, as Liberia was historically known f ...

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

Heredia Province

* Museo de Cultura Popular (Popular Culture, or Folklore, Museum),

Barva Barva is a Districts of Costa Rica, district of the Barva (canton), Barva canton, in the Heredia Province, Heredia province of Costa Rica. The city is known for having a nice mix of rural and metropolitan landscape. Toponymy The name comes from ...

* Museo de Culturas Indígenas Dra. María Eugenia Bozzoli, named in honor of

Maria Eugenia Bozzoli María Eugenia Bozzoli (also, María Eugenia Bozzoli Vargas and María Eugenia Bozzoli de Wille; born 26 May 1935, in San Marcos de Tarrazú) is a Costa Rican anthropologist, sociologist and human rights activist. She is one of the founders of ant ...

Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí Puerto Viejo is a district of the Sarapiquí canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. Geography Puerto Viejo has an area of km² and an elevation of metres. The zone is of flat topography and is furrowed of mighty rivers of course r ...

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Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...