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FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The museum is supported by an annual 

 government appropriation of 6000 colones (colon = 46.5 cents). 



BUILDING. The museum is temporarily installed in a college 

 erected in 1877, pending the erection of a new building. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to the minister of 

 Fomento. 



SCOPE. Local collections and public instruction are the 'primary 

 purposes of the museum. 



LIBRARY. A miscellaneous collection consisting in large part of 

 periodicals. Each section of the museum has its own working library. 



PUBLICATIONS . The museum has no special publications, the work 

 of the staff being published in local and foreign journals. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily, except Sundays and 

 holidays, from 7 to 10 and 12 to 4. 



