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Boruca is an example of a community who struggle to survive and maintain their traditions and customs, as its inhabitants have a rich artistic heritage which is reflected in their beautiful handmade creations. That is why the community decided to create the Boruca’s Indian Community Museum, a place where history merges with the Indian people and artistic development that they have achieved.
The history of the community museum has its beginnings more than 13 years
ago and since then has held various problems between major achievements which motivated to continue their museum project. Today, weeks after completing two years of the reopening of the museum, the Association of Craftsmen and Artisans “La Flor” (the Flower), kept his struggling museum space to grow and increase the tissue between the threads of the past, present and future of their community, which expected to retain its cultural and natural heritage and to defend their lifestyle, knowledge, identity and values in pursuit of integral development.
The Boruca’s Indian Community Museum is an example of national and international museums of this type. The craft people held together and seek new solutions for changes in museum supplies. Advised by the Program of Regional and Community Museums, they are working on a redesign with its own vision of a new museum, to extend their horizons to integrate all the physical space of the community including cultural and natural values, to introduce new topics not yet integrated, to have an own collection, to collect and investigate their own local history and technological improvements to the procurement of computer equipment.
They are in pursuit of developing new projects to diversify the services they want to offer to the visitor on a tourism form in rural community, where peole can taste traditional foods, live in a local indigenous family home, participating in craft activities and enjoy tours of the lifestyle of the indigenous community of Boruca. The museum has been adapted to the times, therefore, in compliance with Act 7600, has made it accessible for people with special need and also have a space to sell their handicrafts which fund their projects, maintain the building and able to pay the person who attends to visitors. The entry has no charge but is very helpful volunteers’ contributions.
The museum seeks to highlight the ancestral construction techniques and natural fabric crafts, particularly woven with threads, vines and carved masks. In addition aims to revitalize the traditional culture of Boruca, emphasizing its traditional architecture of the area. Just building the museum is an example of the kind of hut that was used in ancient and traditional Indian homes. The opening of the Boruca’s Indian Community Museum was helped by the National Museum and the Museum of the Central Bank, who supported the Indian community in different ways. The museum has a souvenir shop with many different types of Indian handicrafts produced by the same Borucas of the area.
When you have the opportunity to visit the Boruca’s Indian Community Museum, it will be fortunate to see a group of artisans weave daily hard and love their products of traditional crafts, as well as the living history of a dream own museum.
Address: Boruca’s Indian Territory in Buenos Aires of Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
GPS Coordinates of Buenos Aires: 9.171619,-83.334567 (9°10’17.83″N, 83°20’4.44″W)
Phone: + (506) 2721-2533
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