Museo del Jade y de la Cultura Precolombina
Tours & Adventure · San José & Central Valley · Five permanent exhibition rooms
Museum of the Instituto Nacional de Seguros with one of the largest jade collections in the Americas, plus ceramics, gold and stone sculpture in five themed permanent rooms and two rooms for temporary shows. Good rainy-day stop in downtown San José. (Category note: museum.)
- Hours
- Google listing: daily 8:00-17:00 (the site gives no hours; ticketing at boleteria.grupoins.com)
- Ratings
- 4.7 on Google (4,045) · 4.4 on Tripadvisor (1,457)
Contact & directions
- Website: https://museodeljade.grupoins.com/
- Phone: +506 2521 6610
- Location: 9.93322, -84.07275 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Plaza de la DemocraciaPark · FreeA wide terraced plaza built for the 1989 Central American presidents' summit, with a monument to President Figueres, who abolished the army in 1948, and a mountain-framed view over downtown.
- Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (Cuartel Bellavista)LandmarkA historic site in San José, Costa Rica.
- Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la SoledadLandmarkA church in San José, Costa Rica.
- Parque Nacional and Monumento NacionalPark · FreeA leafy 1890s park whose centerpiece is the bronze Monumento Nacional, a dramatic sculpture group about Central America's 19th-century fight against filibusters.
- Museo de Arte y Diseño ContemporáneoLandmarkA historic site in San José, Costa Rica.
- Edificio MetálicoLandmark · FreeA school built entirely of iron plates, designed and made in Belgium and shipped over in pieces in the 1890s.
Sources: https://museodeljade.grupoins.com/