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Museo del Oro Precolombino

San José, Costa Rica

The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum reimagines the museum experience as a space for learning and interaction, displaying the history and artifacts in a new light. This new museum space is dedicated to bringing the Pre-Columbian people to life while honoring their living ancestors. It also uses modern exhibition design experience thinking and interactive technology to create a new and intriguing educational environment suitable for one of the region's most important archaeology museums.

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