Archaeological treasures return home

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The evolution of the Costa Rican pre-colombian cultures is the theme of the exposition that the National Museum inaugurated Friday December 10, in the room of temporary expositions.

This is a collection that will be available to the public for a year, and that shows a total of 225 artifacts, the majority of which haven’t been shown previously to the public.

All the pieces are property of the National Museum, but the idea of this proposal was elaborated as a group with Canadian experts: the exhibition, titled Costa Rica land of wonders, is a work of the Museum Pointe á Calliere of Montreal and the National Museum.

According to Ricardo Vásquez, archaeologist and curator of the exhibit, the exposition is divided into five thematic axes, whose titles reflect the growth of the plants they ate, human societies, their development and decadence

"This will permit the visitor to understand the variety of cultural expressions that existed in Nicoya, the Central Region and in the three sub regions of the Pacific", the curator indicated.

According to the communications department of the National Museum, the collection presents pieces of jade, stone, gold and ceramics. The majesty, the detail and the artistic quality are one of the main attractions for the public.

This exhibit will permit the visitors to know about the hierarchies in the different pre-Colombian groups, the development of its art, the relation with the nature and the own biodiversity of the different periods, among others themes.

The exhibition is open to the public every day from 8:30 am to 4 p.m. In December the 2010 the collection will travel to Rome.