Museums

The culture of Taino ancestors and the indelible print of the colonizers, the African legacy and the arrival of immigrants of other cultures to the half island, the years of cultural and commercial interactions, can be seen in the multiple museums of the country.

The Dominican identity expressed in canvasses, sculptures, costumes and religious beliefs, indigenous pictographs and furniture from various centuries, composes the great cultural heritage preserved by Dominican museums.

In the Ciudad Colonial, fundamental parts of the history of the discovery are shown in various museums that preserve the life style of the colonizers and the ships and tools used to make their transoceanic voyages.

Painters that have put on canvas the most emblematic urban and rural scenes of the country, the intimate connection of the community with music and the people’s bond to a religion every day more diverse can be viewed in both public and private exhibit centers.

The colonial heritage, transformed modernity, social denunciations, cries of victory and the deep sorrow of the people that face every day greater challenges to live a better life, are all incorporated in the gamut of creations that the museums bring together for visitors that are lovers of culture.

In different displays of pre-Hispanic art throughout the Dominican Republic we can see, through materials and items used by Tainos, the last ethnic group that populated the island, their customs, religious practices and their general way of life during the pre-colonial era.

Likewise, in different villages within the Dominican Republic, we can find the former residencies of national heroes and heroines, converted into museums where personal items of historical value are preserved.