The Museum of Jade and Pre-Columbian Culture, located in San José, the capital of Costa Rica, was created in the 1970s and is part of a government institution known as the National Insurance Institute.

The Jade Museum is positioned as an innovative cultural proposal for the protection and conservation of the archaeological heritage in Central America and houses the largest collection of pre-Columbian jade in the Americas.

It has 5 permanent exhibition halls with more than 7000 objects made of different materials: jade, bone, wood, resins, stone, ceramics and gold, through which it develops a thematic discourse related to the social and cultural life of the human groups that occupied the Costa Rican territory during the pre-Columbian era. The objective of the museum is to contribute to the social and cultural development of the Costa Rican people through the protection, conservation and preservation of their archaeological and artistic heritage, and the establishment of mutually beneficial relationships with the actors of the environment.

The museum supports the social and cultural development of Costa Ricans through various strategies that allow it to protect, preserve and promote the archaeological and artistic heritage in its custody, while at the same time interpreting, researching, innovating, exhibiting, disseminating and linking with cultural and environmental proposals at the national and international levels.