Are you up for a shocking dichotomy at the museum, where sculptures of voluptuous women are on display near wooden animal parts hanging from meat hooks?
A history museum in Rivas, Nicaragua, was the site of a key 1855 battle with U.S. filibuster William Walker, but the history is a little hard to untangle.
“We want to transmit respect and tolerance from one ethnical or religious group to another,” Museum Director Vilma Faingezicht, herself the daughter of Holocaust survivors, told The Tico Times at the ceremony, during which survivors and their families were called one by one to receive a special gift.
Located in the patio of the museum, surrounded by grass, the armadillo is for everyone, and its friendly features invite people to come close. It cannot be damaged by hands or weather; the public can touch it, pet it, take photos with it and get close to it.
The oldest European-founded city in the Americas is just over the border with Nicaragua. This city of around 100,000 is the epicenter for our northern neighbor's tourism industry, and with good reason.
By painting important figures in the nation’s history, Tomás Povedano helped an entire generation of schoolchildren understand their place in the world. When many of these paintings were adapted as plates for printing money, the artist helped establish the colón as contemporary currency.
If you’re going to dedicate a year to a single exhibit, it better be good. The Central Bank Museums have taken a considerable risk with their latest exposition, “Casi Invisibles” (“Almost Invisible”), partly because of its academic style, and partly because the show runs until September 2015. That’s a long time to dedicate one of the most hallowed art spaces in San José, not to mention one of the biggest magnets for foreign tourists.
A natural history museum designed by famed architect Frank Gehry opened in Panama City this week. The Biomuseo -- a project first conceived nearly 15 years ago and hampered by all kinds of issues -- welcomed in the public for the first time Thursday.
