Pre Columbian Gold Museum

The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum is a museum in San Jose, Costa Rica. It is located in a subterranean building below the Plaza dela. Cultura and is controlled with the aid of the Banco Central de Costa Rica. The museum has a good sized series of over 1600 artifacts of Pre-Columbian gold dating lower back to AD 500. The series consists of Costa Rica's first coin, the Media Escudo which turned into minted in 1825, animal figurines, amulets, rings, erotic statuettes and El Guerrero, a life sized gold warrior figure decorated with gold embellishes in a glass case.

In Costa Rican history, gold turned into taken into consideration a image of authority and the objects are testament to the craftmanship of the Pre-Columbian period. There is likewise a reproduction of a pre-Columbian grave containing 88 gold gadgets which become unearthed on a banana plantation in southeastern Costa Rica in the 1950. The Museo Numismatico is also positioned in the identical building at the ground level and functions displays dating again to 1236, which include cash, banknotes and unofficial gadgets consisting of espresso tokens.