Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Gloria Calderón, Director of the Museo de los Niños in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Ms. Calderón talks about the engaging hands-on children’s museum, her passion for the country, and the work-in-progress to create an adjunct museum showcasing the former prison’s story.
The Children’s Museum opened in 1994 in a long abandoned prison with a history rivaling the world’s worst hell holes of incarceration.
The idea to repurpose the prison as a place of light for children was conceived and shepherded by the former first Lady of the Republic of Costa Rica, Mrs. Gloria Bejarano de Calderón, Gloria’s mother.
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