Pre-Columbian Gold Museum

  
There is a connection between the pre-Columbian past and its transcendence in the present by 
visiting the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum. The tour invited us to ask ourselves everything from how
the first settlers arrived in the territory that is today Costa Rica to what is the reality that
descendent Indigenous peoples live.

Throughout the nine thematic units, proposes a journey between the past and the present reflecting on
issues such as migration, mining and metallurgic production; the ancestral and current world view of
indigenous people, and their human relationship with nature; their vision of gender, and the historic 
impact of the colony and conquest.

About 688 pre-Columbian gold pieces are shown, and to highlight the richness of the archaeological
collection, more pieces of ceramic and stone from the various regions and periods of the country
are also included. The techniques associated with their elaboration acquire greater prominence 
in correlation with the development of metallurgy and goldsmithing.

In order to make the cultural diversity of the current eight indigenous peoples visible, a play,
in a small audiovisual room, a documentary consisting of indigenous testimonies about several topics:
their vision of territoriality, language, customs, traditions, their world view, family organization,
daily life, education, productive and economic development..