National Museum
The National Museum was established near the end of
the 19th century, and opened as one of the most significant and
biggest centers for cultural and artistic expositions in the nation,
housing important relics from prehistorical bones and pre-Columbian
ceramics that are dated back some 4000 years to the more modern
paintings and sculptures. The structure that houses the museum is
the National Palace of Culture that is situated in the heart of
Managua, Nicaragua and contains nine rooms of temporary and
permanent exhibits. As you begin your visit, you'll enter into the
lobby of the palace, where guides can be obtained to take your
around the exhibits and explain all you care to learn about this
early and marvelous culture, with pre-Columbian statues discovered
at Ometepe Island decorating the lobby and turning it into a more
informal entrance into the museum. There is a magnificent wall mural
that depicts the historic battle of San Jacinto, with many other
murals located here that were painted by well known artists like the
two Italians, Giancarlo Splendiani and Maurizo Gobernati, Canadian
Arnold Belkin and Mexican Felipe Castellon. In the natural history
room there is an overview of the historical and geological areas of
the nation, with intriguing maps of the presence of various minerals
located throughout the country, along with outstanding information
about the various minerals located there. Their paleontology room
houses a fabulous collection of huge prehistorical mammal bones that
have been uncovered at the various sites in the nation, along with
the skeletal remains of a mastodon, the bones of a whale and the
bones of a huge ant eater.
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