At the edge of a middle-class neighborhood between Heredia and Barva is the Museum of Popular Culture (Museo de Cultura Popular), which preserves a farmhouse built in 1885 with an adobelike technique called bahareque. Run by the National University, the museum is furnished with antiques and surrounded by a small garden and coffee fields. An adjacent open-air restaurant serves inexpensive Costa Rican lunches on weekends. Just walking around the museum is instructive, but calling ahead to reserve a hands-on cultural tour (such as tortilla-making) really makes it worth the trip.
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