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Costa Rica’s University Insects Museum is located inside the Agro-Alimentary Sciences Faculty at the Crops Protection Research Center (CIPROC in Spanish). The museum was founded in 1962 primarily for teaching and research purposes, as part of their academic activities and since then it has been accumulating important scientific collections developed as a result of specific research projects. To accomplish this task, the Insect Museum has established many contacts and
interacted with scientists from major worldwide research centers, which has facilitated the exchange of information on the diversity of insects in our country and the role they play in our ecosystem.
For being part of the Crop Protection Research Center, the Insects Museum is related to its academic infrastructure, as with the national agricultural sector, especially providing diagnostic services for species that are of economic interest for their plague status or biological regulator role.
Since its inception it created a space for the national and international community, with that purpose a showroom accessible to all visitors was built, where it’s permanently displayed the lush insect diversity in Costa Rica. It started with 58.935 specimens, now it has approximately one million collected through several research projects. For this process the museum has the support of over 100 international specialists. Collections are represented by the orders: Odonata (dragonflies), Hemiptera (bugs), Homoptera (cicadas), Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies) and Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants). They are available as reference materials for technical professionals in this field as well as farmers and the general public.
Currently, the museum receives visits from schools and colleges to show the student population our biodiversity, and in some way to guide students to a possible career specialty. It also has a showroom where samples of insects are concentrated with their corresponding explanatory sheets, parallel to this a narrator. The main objective sought by the Insect Museum is that visitors become aware of Costa Rica’s biodiversity and also learn the importance and benefits of insects in our environment.
Address: University of Costa Rica, district: San Pedro, canton: Montes de Oca, province: San Jose, Costa Rica. Zone postal code: 11501.
GPS Coordinates of the University of Costa Rica: 9.935081,-84.051364 (9°56’06.29″N, 84°03’04.91″W)
Schedule: from Monday-Friday 1 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Phone: +506 2207-5318
during its early years, this fact coupled with collaboration from many people who love nature, led 10 years later with the unconditional support from the Lasallian Parent Dynamic Association, to build the first stage of the building, of 1.500m2, which today houses the collections, turned into an exhibition field of 2430m2, after undergoing several extensions.
characteristics of this ancient culture. Its main mission is to collect, document, preserve, interpret and disseminate the knowledge and the material and spiritual life from the past and the present of the Jewish community in general and Jews in Costa Rica in particular.
and patrimonial sites of Costa Rica and is located in an important historical area of downtown San Jose. The old FANAL building after a radical restoration in the early nineties, became the National Culture Center (CENAC in Spanish).
the Metropolitan Park of the same name.
in the Scope No. 157 from the Gazette No.209 on November 4th, 1977. It is located in the Former Train Station with exhibits in architecture, music, literature and fine art, which can be touched and heard.
Address: at the Tibas Integral Health Clinic, South side of the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, district: San Juan, canton: San Jose, province: San Jose, Costa Rica. Zone postal code: 11301.
At the museum you will find a tribute room about the contributions made by García Monge in such diverse fields. With a feeling to its century, you will find in exposition personal and literary works that remain immune to time. It also has a multipurpose room and is dedicated to temporary exhibitions, artistic performances, lectures, workshops and painting classes.
recent years the museum has been devoted to the investigation, retrieval and distribution of medicinal plants in the region, that’s why a sort of botanical garden was created, where Ángel Ramírez himself explains the therapeutic use of all the flowers and trees he has cultivated. The museum is located in Tobosi del Guarco, Cartago.
collection that started to be collected on November 10th, 1932. It consists of a colonial arms room, a pre-Columbian pieces room and a room that represents a “colonial home”. It is located in one of the oldest cities in Costa Rica, in a valley not far from San Jose. Here, students go to class in a building that has been an academy, barracks, school and museum.
situation continued until 1965 when the then-director Don Jesús Baldares Molina introduced several improvements to the museum and moved it to its current location at the lower part of the institutional building northeast section.
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