Site Museum Farm 6 — Attraction in Palmar

This is a very interesting place for those into serious archaeology, but as others have said, the spheres aren't very dramatic and the site while well provided for in some respects (good "banos", good explanations and a few (very few) other interesting artefacts) lacks drinking water (so bring some as it's usually very hot here!) . Note that many guides fail to locate it correctly. To find it, take Route 2 (Interamericana) to Palmar Norte, cross the long girder bridge over the Rio Terraba, and then turn right on to the Sierpe Road. Note that it's worth making a stop at the little park that comes up on the left, opposite the airport and the plinthed FC del Sur steam engine (worth a look in its own right). The park has several large spheres as well as beautiful and interesting trees.

The museum is 8 km down the road towards Sierpe. There are helpful markers showing the number of km to go; a white M on a blue square background. The final sign has an arrow pointing to the museum.

I have tried to correct the museum location; there are two markers and one of them is misplaced to be at Palmar Norte. The other is correctly located on the...

This is the most bizarre place. It's way out there on the Osa peninsula, almost all the way to Sierpe. If you are into strange, unexplained archeology it's unparalleled.

Read what the current theory is about these stone sphere sculptures and try to square that with what you see in front of you.

The level of technology and amount of work involved with the creation of these artifacts, their extremely limited geographic distribution and the rugged jungle environment makes them way more perplexing than Stonehenge or Machu Pichu.

In my opinion they are more anomalous than the statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). At least with those you can see the quarry, observe the unfinished works and get some small sort of possible reason WHY they are there.

They are more challenging to archeological concepts than the Dinosaur wall in Dinosaur National Park - if you reject the concept of gradualism and acknowledge that catastrophe is way more likely the wall makes total sense.

But these spheres are a different thing. They will make you go hmmm. If you enjoy that kind of thing, highly recommended.

The museum is minimal. The spheres...

This museum really is about the dearth of understanding left behind after colonial genocides and displacement of indigenous people. The history of violence between settler and coloniser is not readily acknowledged, and without acknowledging this crucial context the collection takes on a sort of disingenuous feel.

The objects in the museum are beautiful, and I wish there were more information on-offer. The speculative nature of the accompanying templates really left me with a profound sense of grief and loss.

I adored the many large and beautiful spheres on display during the easy, flat 1-km walk. The intervening banana-rails from the surrounding farmlands added a flair of curiosity.

The agrarian landscape seems ready to collapse into jungle should maintenance offer a moment's respite. Animals included bananaquits, red-lored amazons, black-blue doves, hummingbirds, several species of moths and butterflies, and a million-billion leafcutter ants.

Very much worth the 7USD...