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Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, San Jose

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  • August 14, 2017
    Came upon this out of the way museum and was impressed. I found the butterfly collection amazing (over 1,200 species represented!). Each section of the museum has some dated taxidermy, jungle birds, s...  more »
  • July 21, 2017
    I went 2 times in my 25 years of age, one in kindergarten and one day my #25 birthday, may 29! Center is located near la Sabana in San Jose. the entrance is charged. I loved to take it again, it seems that it has not changed much in the last 20 years, is a building is a plant with many rooms divided by types of animals, have health services, at the entrance you can see bones of giant whales, in a show of enormous dinosaur bones, and can coonocer how to look the animal and its different races and families as you're moving... something incredible to see the stuffed animals and the repilcas of animals from around the world, marine fossils, rocks... everything is great, you can see butterflies, bugs is a very interesting experience opara mucdo of science and both children and adults are going to emoionar, or at least so I went to my.
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  • June 26, 2017
    A museum with great diversity of specimens; from the Cretaceous to the present day. Perfect for children and adults, I'm not tired of see their large, beautiful collections of butterflies, their imposing specimens of dinosaurs, etc. Simply interesting! The entry cost was $2 per person.
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  • July 11, 2016
    Nice collections, liked a lot the dinosaur bones, nice expositions of animals and where they live.
  • August 19, 2016
    Educational
  • May 13, 2017
    The place has one of the best collections of stuffed animal species that you can find in Costa Rica. Each room is separate and well labeled. This museum was created 60 years ago and presents specimens from around the world. A great place for all ages.
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  • June 16, 2017
    Never before had gone, I thought it was a very beautiful place, steeped in history, if you like to see all kinds of animal fossils, is excellent...
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  • July 4, 2017
    There are too many things that are really awesome everything looks real is beautiful
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