Jade Museum (Museo Nacional del Jade) San Jose

Avenida 7, Calle 9 y 11, Piso 11 del I.N.S. San Jose , Province of San Jose, Costa Rica - Phone: 506-287-6034
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    Costa Rican Capital

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    ... a nice place with a good location near the central park area. We spent a few days doing the standard "tourist sites" Jade Museum, National Theater, walking down the central shopping area (Central Ave). I think the highlight for us was the National ...

  • 2

    Jade, Gold & God

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    ... ) is located. It sets me back .60 cents...LOL... &  $7.00 for el museo. The Gold museum, in downtown San Jose, is very easily the country's best, and perhaps Central America, museum. It displays thousands of different examples of ...

  • 3

    San Jose- A Day in the City Before Mamma Leaves!

    ... , luckily she´s a good sport!), parked the car and headed to a restaurant for a great lunch.  We then went to the Jade Museum, San Jose´s most famous museum.  They had tons of Jade, ceramics, and ancient artifacts.  They were all in ...

  • 4

    Costa Rica Pre columbian Museo De Jade

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    Having been to San Jose 3 years ago, I decided to re visit a Jade Museum located on the first floor of the INS Building. . Within Mesoamerica, Costa Rica is one of the 2 regions in which jade was extensively carved in Precolumbian times. It appears ...

  • 5

    Do the Hustle

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    ... inside the drug store nearby would not have found it, however the post office does not open on Saturday. Next we walked to the jade museum it also was closed already, after we found the National Art Museum and, surpise, it was closed. It seems many ...

  • 6

    We don´t need no stinkin reservations

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    ... the core and passing historic sites and good shoppping areas. We´re going to see where sketchy old men take their escorts and maybe a jade museum. We plan to upload pics later today, now that we´ve found a decent internet cafe. So stay tuned boys and ...

  • 7

    Coasta Rica - Rain rich country

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    Greetings, I am in San Jose, Costa Rica and have been in the general vicinity for almost three weeks now. Just before here, I spent two very unmemorable nights in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Boy, I though Guatemala had some rough spots. On my way ...

  • 8

    Forty Minutes in San Jose

    ... drive thru San Jose at rush hour. These are the things the car rental company will tell you when you rent a car in San Jose, Costa Rica.  You should probably listen.  There all good points.  Unless you get lost when you drive two blocks ...

  • 9

    Bored!!! Really really bored.

    ... you have to get a 30 min bus, can't just walk it. Went into town yesterday and found the gold museum was shut, went to find the jade museum and missed it, but I did find the zoo. Small zoo, needs a lot of money spending on it, saw lots of toucans, ...

  • 10

    Exploring and robbery

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    ... . There were some quirky markets and lots of bakeries and fresh fruit shops around. In the afternoon we decieded to visit the Jade museum, which was supposedly 200m away, what could possibly go wrong. A kind looking taxi driver pulled up just as we ...