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Our Lady of Ujarrás Historical Religious Museum Costa Rica arises in the eighties with the idea from the then pastor Jorge Picado, which invites community members to organize and establish a center where they could display items belonging to the past of the canton of Paraiso, Cartago. But over time the idea was
abandoned, until 1985, when the priest Gerardo Sanabria arrives to the village, who in the early nineties, continues the museum project, supported by ACUJA (Ujarrás Cultural Association), however, at this time it didn’t open its doors, because they continued researching and preparing the space for it. In 2000, due to renovations in the physical infrastructure of the parish, the museum was transferred and reopened in 2003 at the bottom of the temple, which until today offers to the public the history of the canton of Paraiso, Cartago.
Our Lady of Ujarrás Historical Religious Museum (Museo Histórico Religioso de Nuestra Señora de Ujarrás) has a very high value for the community, as after its doors is locked the history of the canton of Paraiso, from its beginnings in pre-Columbian times (in the Ujarrás valley), its colonization, the discovery of the Ujarrás Virgin (event with high influence in the town’s history), until his subsequent transfer to Paraiso and the growth the town has experienced since then.
The museum has several areas, such as the archaeological which samples how ancestors were and lived in Ujarrás, the peasant and traditional everyday objects used in masquerades at that time, t
he religious devoted to the Ujarrás Virgin, as well as worship objects and important celebrations; the historical with documents, relocation decrees, scrolls, newspapers, etc. The museum features photographs of ancestors and activities of the village with an area dedicated to Don Florencio del Castillo, his life and importance to our country, and with an Indian grave with petroglyph casket brought from Urasca and rests of the ancient foundations of the temple constructed with Calicanto.
About ACUJA, Ujarrás Cultural Association
It is an association that promotes cultural canton activities and works to rescue and maintain customs and traditions that since past times have characterized the community of Paraiso of Cartago. It has its beginnings in the mid-eighties when the idea to create the museum arose and a group of people reunited to form a committee, but that committee decayed until it is reestablished in 1993, when the idea of the museum re-arises and another group of people is assembled, with the duty to search and organize the cultural heritage of Paraiso and exhibit to any visitor.
Address: northeast side of Paraiso of Cartago Church, district: Paraíso, canton: Paraíso, province: Cartago, Costa Rica. Zone postal code: 30201.
GPS Coordinates: 9.838628,-83.865631 (9°50’19.06″N, 83°51’56.27″W)
Ujarras Church Ruins GPS Coordinates: 9.828519,-83.836033 (9°49’42.67″N, 83°50’9.72″W)
Schedule: from Thursdays to Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sundays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Phone: +506 2574-7258
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