Museum of Popular Culture Review

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Museum of Popular Culture

  • Address: Between Heredia and Barva; from the Musmanni in Santa Lucia de Barva, 100 m north, 1 km/½ mi east (follow signs), Heredia
  • Phone: 260-1619
  • www.ilam.org/cr/museoculturapopular

Fodor's Review:

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.

  • Cost: $1
  • Open: weekdays 8-4; weekends 10-4
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