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Museo de Cultura Popular (Popular Culture, or Folklore, Museum) is a museum in the district of Santa Lucía, just south of Barva, Costa Rica. It is located in the former home of ex-president Alfredo González Flores .
Arts organizations based in Costa Rica (2 C) P. Performing arts in Costa Rica (3 C) Photography in Costa Rica (1 C) W. Works by Costa Rican people (4 C)
The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo), founded in 1994, is a Costa Rican museum, specialising in contemporary Central American art and design, but also representing international work in the field. To comply with this ambitious idea, we define and promote, in a permanent way, the most recent ...
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design) Museo de Formas Espacios y Sonidos (Shapes, Spaces, and Sounds Museum) Museo de Oro Precolombiano (The Museum of Pre-Columbian Gold) Museo del Jade (Museum of Jade) Museo Filatélico y Numismático de Costa Rica (Philatelic and Numismatic Museum)
The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish. [6] However, there are also many local indigenous languages in Costa Rica, such as Bribrí. [7] [8] English is the first foreign language and the second most taught language in Costa Rica, followed by French, German, Italian and Chinese. [9] A creole language called Mekatelyu is also spoken in ...
This is a list of festivals celebrated in Costa Rica: [1] This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
The first full-length film produced and directed by Costa Ricans is El Retorno in 1930. [5]Historically, opportunities to create films in Costa Rica was limited. The prohibitive cost of equipment and materials for celluloid film-making combined with the lack of both private and governmental support meant that a national or regional film industry was difficult to realize. [3]
Povedano also made illustrations for texts such as the Silabario castellano by Porfirio Brenes, the newspaper La Tribuna, the Páginas ilustradas and El Fígaro, as well as for the Historical Booklet of Costa Rica, which, written by Ricardo Fernández Guardia, is the history manual more used in Costa Rican education during the 20th century. [2]