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“El Ceibo” is a major Museum in the Ometepe island in what once were the tobacco farm “Tel Aviv” kilns, known by its former name “El Refugio”, in the community of Sacramento, 10 kilometers from Moyogalpa in Lake Cocibolca or Lake Nicaragua administratively island belongs to the Rivas Department. The name of the island derives from the Nahuatl: ōme 'two' and tepētl 'mountain (s)', since it is almost entirely composed of two volcanic cones: Concepción (volcano) and Maderas volcano. Access to the Museum is free to island residents, has a modest entrance fee of US $ 6 for foreign tourists to visit both museums and US $ 4 for domestic visitors. The museum requires multilateral support to increase the exhibition area as well as scientific research on many pieces, to enhance information about the articles and to support scientific studies of the important archaeological area. Due to the little external visitor’s influx, the limited income of the Museum is not sufficient for maintenance and operation. All of which is financed by own resources of the private museum. ==Museum History== The museum has two specific sections on two separate buildings, one is Nicaraguan numismatics, and another about prehispanic archaeology of the area. The archaeology exhibition area has six exhibition halls in 200 square meters, two-story exhibition, and is unique in Ometepe, the only one equipped with air conditioning to preserve the important archaeological heritage exhibit. The Museum was founded in 2007 by Moises David Ghitis Rivera, Nicaraguan philanthropist, on an agricultural and cattle farm of his property in the island of Ometepe. It is the only prehispanic private museum in the island of Ometepe, with a collection of more than 1500 archaeological pieces, which are on permanent display. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Ceibo Museums」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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