In 1982, Banco Central completed the construction of a three-story underground museum, and all the collections were moved to their final home. Today, the building houses two museums, three temporary exhibits, and a large auditorium. The building's contemporary design is an attraction in itself. The Pre-columbian Gold Museum has a permanent exhibit of nearly 2,000 gold objects from 500 AD to the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th Century. The Museum of Numismatics has a display of Costa Rican bills, coins and coffee slips from a historic point of view, beginning in the 16th Century to modern times.
Temporary exhibits show everything from photography and paintings to poems and handicrafts.