I visited two museos (museums) today.

The first museum was called the Choco Museo y Cafe. It's a small museum, factory, store and cafe dedicated to the production, display and commercialization of cocao and chocolate.

There were displays about the history, facts and myths of cacao.

A workroom where one could observe the making of chocolate...

...and sample it.

And, a nicely presented chocolate shop and cafe.
They offer a $6 all you can eat breakfast buffet, but it was late in the day and I didn't take advantage of it. The museum was free.

The second museo was called Mi Museo. This museo had a very well organized and displayed collection of pre and post columbian artifacts excavated from around Nicaragua.

Some modern pottery from the surrounding area.

I may need to pick up a few pieces.

These were large water vessels.

This is a Jaguar ceremonial piece.

These were large burial containers. Bodies were buried in traditional graves, then after a couple years after the bodies were decomposed the remains were dug up and reburied in these containers.

My guide took me into a back room where they reconstruct some of the pieces... like this skull.

These urns.

And this large container.





They offer a $6 all you can eat breakfast buffet, but it was late in the day and I didn't take advantage of it. The museum was free.









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