National Museum of Costa Rica

The National Museum Costa Rica is the national historical center of Costa Rica, situated in the capital of San José. It is situated at Calle 17, amongst Central and Second Avenue, Cuesta de Moras, in the Bellavista Fortress, a crenelated, ochre-hued working inverse the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica.

The post was worked in 1917 and was initially a military garrison hut: the outside dividers still have numerous shots held up in them from the nation's 1948 common war. It turned into the site of the exhibition hall in 1950. The passageway on the east side prompts a patio showing pre-Columbian antiquities and guns from the pioneer time frame.

The historical center is sorted out specifically a counterclockwise way from the passage with ancient rarities identified with Costa Rica's land, pilgrim, archeological, religious and present-day history.

The exhibition hall had a remarkable accumulation of pre-Columbian stone tables metates, earthenware production and a gold room "Sala de Oro" in the upper east pinnacle. The pioneer room has an eminent accumulation of furniture and is intended to imitate that of genuine quarters in the eighteenth century.

The historical center additionally has a display of the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize granted to Óscar Arias, and a bust of José Figueres and butterfly plant in the outside "Square de la Democracia.