{"id":10917,"date":"2018-07-13T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2018-07-16T03:21:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T03:21:58","slug":"el-museo-de-cera-juan-pablo-duarte-documenta-la-vida-y-obra-del-padre-de-la-patria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/el-museo-de-cera-juan-pablo-duarte-documenta-la-vida-y-obra-del-padre-de-la-patria\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Founding Father\u2019s Wax Museum Highlights Key Moments of his Life and Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo, July 12, 2018<\/strong> \u2013 The Juan Pablo Duarte Wax Museum is a visual testimony of the life, vision and commitment of the Dominican Republic\u2019s founding father and the contributions he made to free the country from foreign powers.<\/p>\n

Minister of Culture, architect Eduardo Selman, last Friday visited the historical Museum to learn more about its operations and educational value.\u00a0 Visitors to the Museum will learn much more about the founding of the Dominican Republic through the life of Juan Pablo Duarte.<\/p>\n

Minister Selman visited the Museum accompanied by Billy Hasb\u00fan, director of International Relations and \u00c1ngel de la Rosa, the Ministry\u2019s director of Public Relations.\u00a0 Also, by artist Guimar \u00c1lvarez de Toledo, Mar\u00eda Abell\u00e1n and Rosanna Rivera, and architects Omar Rancier, Te\u00f3dulo Blanchard and Jos\u00e9 Enrique Delmonte.<\/p>\n

Upon his arrival at the Museum, situated in Santo Domingo\u2019s Colonial Zone (Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica Street, #308), Minister Selman was greeted by Museum director Juan Gilberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez who, during the tour, explained the concept of the Museum and the importance of Juan Pablo Duarte.<\/p>\n

During the tour Minister Selman and guests received pertinent information on the exhibits, works of art, photographs and other historic documents that reveal the activities of Duarte and his family.<\/p>\n

Some of the key exhibits are documents and important items, revealing the birth of Duarte, on January 26, 1813; Independence Day, February 27, 1844, and his death, on July 15, 1876.<\/p>\n

The Wax Museum also features specific items from the original home of Juan Pablo Duarte, such as original pieces of furniture as well as 10 wax figures that represent a specific moment in the family life of the national hero.\u00a0Another exhibit depicts the date when some members of the independence movement \u2013 known as \u201cLos Trinitarios\u201d \u2013 were sworn in on July 16, 1838.<\/p>\n

Another important exhibit is the moment when the rebel fighters, headed by Ram\u00f3n Mat\u00edas Mella, declared Dominican independence on February 27, 1844.<\/p>\n

The museum also features 13 educational dioramas, or exhibits that represent various scenes with three-dimensional figures as well as 60 paintings that tell the story of the independence process.\u00a0 It also features an auditorium with capacity for 200 visitors and where special lectures and activities are held. It also features the \u201cPatriots of Liberty Plaza,\u201d where a variety of weapons used during the Independence movement are exhibited.<\/p>\n

One particular exhibit shows a chronological sequence of the Haitian occupation of the Dominican Republic in 1822, Duarte\u2019s speech before the newly found nation in 1844, the baptism ceremony of Juan Pablo Duarte in 1813, and his death in Venezuela in 1876.<\/p>\n

Also, specific moments when Duarte was forced to leave the country; the meeting held to oppose a French Protectorate in 1844; his triumphant return to the country that same year; the presentation of the first independent government in 1864; his travel to Europe in 1829 to complete his studies, and a representation of Francisco del Rosario S\u00e1nchez in 1844.<\/p>\n

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Santo Domingo, July 12, 2018 \u2013 The Juan Pablo Duarte Wax Museum is a visual testimony of the life, vision and commitment of the Dominican Republic\u2019s founding father and the contributions he made to free the country from foreign powers. Minister of Culture, architect Eduardo Selman, last Friday visited the historical Museum to learn more … Continue reading “Dominican Founding Father\u2019s Wax Museum Highlights Key Moments of his Life and Works”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10949,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/10949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}