The Last Museum for Class
Today we went back to San José to visit the last museum for class. It's called Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Museum, and it's another house of a past president. This museum was transformed so that the original architecture was preserved, and we could walk over a glass section so we could see the original flooring. There was a room where the original Costa Rican Constitution could be seen through a glass case, we well as several other items from the period: a telephone, some pens, and his original desk.
Right now there's an exhibit of Japanese-Costa Rican artists' work in the majority of the house. All of the work was of traditional Japanese items, but by citizens of Costa Rica. There were lots of scroll-paintings of sakuras and Japanese buildings, and several rooms dedicated solely to origami. I wish I would have taken more pictures of the origami, because there were figures that I had never even thought of making out of paper before.
We enjoyed the museum, but we were anxious to get back to Heredia. On museum days, we usually got back at least 30 minutes late, but we didn't want to be too late today because at 12:30 we were leaving for a coffee tour. We got back to the university at noon exactly, so we got back just in time!