Resources for Communities
In the hopes of reaching communities that live far from our premises, we have several resources that can travel to any part of the country, in order to spread knowledge about our numismatic, archaeological, and artistic heritage. We carry out tours to different communities, offer traveling exhibitions, and have online resources for research and learning.
Touring Exhibitions
4.6.3.1 Touring Exhibitions A series of touring exhibitions travel free of charge to different parts of the country to spread the topics addressed in the exhibitions of the Museum; they are easy to transport and to assemble. We currently have eight touring exhibits that are lent to non-profit institutions such as municipalities, libraries, schools, and cultural centers. They can request and share them with their community throughout the year. Each touring exhibition contains posters, assembly manual, publications, and videos among other resources.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
The traveling exhibitions allow the museum to leave its walls, using easy-to-assemble materials based on the thematic contents of our past temporary exhibits. They are a condensed version, with high quality images and texts, addressed at a diverse audience.
Field Trips to Communities
The Education Department team travels to rural communities and indigenous peoples carrying a touring exhibit that addresses the topics of the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum. This enriching experience is shared with students and people in the communities through mediated visits and other educational activities.
Research and learning
This space is designed to foster curiosity, discovery, and learning. In this section, you will find references to articles, books, and all kinds of documents related to the contents addressed at the Museums of the Central Bank. By exploring this repository, you will further your knowledge on the topics you found as you walked through our exhibitions. Periodically, we make recommendations of readings from interesting and useful documents that are chosen from the suggestions of the museum's staff members.
The repository keeps growing thanks to new research and exhibitions we conduct; therefore, you can always come back and find new materials.
Publications
Discover the species of frogs and toads that were represented in pre-Columbian artifacts, and the importance of these species from an archaeological, ethnographic, and biological point of view.
Reimagining the Community" arises from the need to address the transformations that came to light with the pandemic. Some of them have been experimented collectively, while others privately, both locally and nationally.
The Seventies was one of the richest periods of the Visual Arts in Costa Rica. Learn more about this decade, and the artistic positions and manifestations that emerged in this publication.
Discover the stories that lie behind each banknote and learn about those that have been used in our country from the eighteenth century to 2018.
The journey, the ritual, apprenticeship, and human ties are some of the key themes that bring us closer to the work of Costa Rican artist, Adrián Arguedas, and his quest to answer the question of who we are.
Learn about the errors that have happened in the manufacturing of Costa Rican coins, which makes them unique objects in coin collecting.
Get a closer look at the archaeological artifacts to learn how the pre-Columbian inhabitants explained the world. Beyond the Objects brings us closer to the symbols represented in the design of ceramic and stone pieces.
Get a closer look at the contents of the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum in a publication that covers the pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica from the settlement of the Americas to the first contacts with the Spanish conquistadors
Learn about the use that ancient settlers gave to pre-Columbian stamp seals, and the importance of these objects to communicate ideas associated with their beliefs and rituals.
The twenty-seven lectures presented at the "Artistic Creation in the 1970s" congress allow us to raise the visibility of the artistic work that emerged at that time in our country.
La segunda entrega de la trilogía de exhibiciones Reimaginar, nos aproxima a diferentes nociones de la frontera en medio de la pandemia.
Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, España
Colegio de América, España
Este libro aborda el tema de la música de la época precolombina e indígena costarricense, pero no de la forma tradicional que suele abarcar solo la manufactura de los objetos, dado que ahonda en la importancia de concebir a los artefactos como productos de un…
En esta publicación nos acercaremos a la historia de los alimentos en la época precolombina y conoceremos cómo estos adquirieron un significado cultural. Entre sabores, preparaciones y olores distintivos, los grupos humanos vieron una forma de identificarse en la cocina, en la comida y en…
Educational Resources for the Classroom
Our Museums are spaces in which topics of elementary, secondary, and higher education can be creatively integrated with the contents associated to our temporary and permanent collections. These options include a variety of theme cards, educational kits, and virtual tours that allow the educator to generate different learning dynamics through questions and activities for students to connect what they see to their own knowledge and everyday experiences.
Visit resources
We conceive the museum as a space for learning, discovery, and reflection, and for generating connections between the past and the present; children, young people, and adults dialogue with our collections and enrich their contents based on their own questions, experiences, and knowledge. Feel free to use these resources. Make an adventure full of discovery out of your visit
Anímese a usar estos recursos y haga de su visita una aventura llena de descubrimientos.