Museums of Dominican Republic
- 1. National Museum of History and Geography
- 2. Museum of Man Dominicain
- 3. Modern Art
- 4. Las Casas Reales
- 5. Las Atarazanas Reales
- 6. Casa de Tostado
- 7. Faro a Colon
- 8. Alcazar de Colon
- 9. Bellapart
- 10. Museum of Contemporary Ceramics
- 11. Pre-Hispanic Art
- 12. Niño Trampolin
- 13. Porcelain
- 14. Archaeological Museum La Caleta
- 15. Los Tres Ojos
- 16. Duarte
- 17. Philatelic and Numismatic
- 18. World of Amber
- 19. Radio and TV. Lulio Moscos
- 20. Forteresse de San Felipe Puerto Plata
- 21. Museum of Taino Art
- 22. La Isabela
- 23. Amber Museum
- 24. Casa Juan Ponce de Leon (San Rafael del Yuma)
- 25. La Altagracia museum
- 26. Museum Dr Estrada Torres
- 27. Alto de Chavon
- 28. Cuevas de Las Maravillas
- 29. Confraternity of Espíritu Santo de los Congos
- 30. Historical Museum of Bani
- 31. Cándido Bido (Bonao)
- 32. Don Tomás Morel (Santiago)
- 33. Cultural Center Eduardo Leon
- 34. Museum Restauracion
- 35. La Vega Vieja
- 36. Imágenes de la Frontera (Dajabon)
- 37. Hermanas Mirabal (Salcedo)
- 38. Máximo Gómez (Monte Cristi)
- 39. Orlando Martinez
Museums in Santo Domingo
During a visit to Santo Domingo and the Colonial Zone there are many museums to visit, a day is not enough. Many small hotels in the Colonial Zone used to spend one or more nights at a good price.
The National Museum of History and Geography
Museum of the history , geography
and heritage of the Dominican Republic contributed along the way
of the country's historical journey. The exhibitions focus on the
first inhabitants of the island, the North American intervention
and its interaction with Haiti.
Operating days: Monday thru Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm
Telephone: 809-687-6452
Price : 20 pesos adults / Schools 5 pesos, colleges and students
10 pesos.
Located at the Culture Plaza Juan Pablo Duarte , Pedro Henrique
Ureña street.
Closed to the public - under inventory and maintenance , not information
available about the re-opening.
The Museum of Man Dominicain
Museum of the Dominican Man
with the best pre-Colombian collection of archaeology, religious
pieces and sculptures. Also with the most important exhibition of
tainos items of the country.
Hours : tuesday thru Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm
Phone : 809-687-3623
Price : RD$20 students and children / RD$60 per adults / RD$75 non
Dominican citizens.
Located at the Culture Plaza Juan Pablo Duarte , Pedro Henrique
Urena street.
The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art of the
Dominican Republic presents permanently the masterpieces of the
most notorious Dominican artists.
Hours : du mardi au dimanche 09h00-17h00.
Phone : 809-685-2153
Price : RD$20 students and children / RD$50 all adults.
Located at the Culture Plaza Juan Pablo Duarte , Pedro Henrique
Ureña street.
Las Casas Reales
This museum is about the
rich history of Santo Domingo and colonization with tapestries,
furniture, maps and other objects from 1492 until 1821 he was the
mayor's office.
Hours : Monday thru domingo from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Phone : 809-682-4202
Price : RD$100 per adult (06/2012).
Located in front of the sun’s clock , las Damas street, corner
Mercedes at the Spain Plaza.
Las Atarazanas Reales
Museum of underwater archaeology,
with brick warehouses where was kept the merchandise that arrived
to the port. Because the main buildings cities were being built
with stones they were made of brick a secondary material.
Hours : Tuesday thru Sunday from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Phone : 809-682-5834
Price : RD$50 per adults and free for students and children under
12 years.
Located in the Colon street N. 4, at the Colonial Zone.
Casa de Tostado
Heritage Museum and local
art on the decorative arts of the nineteenth century to the early
twentieth.
Hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4p.m.
Phone : 809-689-5000
Price : 20 pesos / Children and students 10 pesos.
Arzobispo Merino street, Colonial Zone.
The Museum Faro a Colon
The
Faro a Colon is a monument dedicated to the memory of Christopher
Columbus with a museum based on the history of the discovery of
the Americas, colonization and evangelization. Was opened in 1992
celebrating the First Centenary of the Encounter between two cultures.
It has 237 meters long by 52 meters wide and reflects the light
in a cross shape in the sky at night. It also has a mausoleum where
the rest of the ashes of Christopher Columbus.
Hours : Tuesday thru Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Phone : 809-591-1492
Price : RD$100 per all adults / RD$20 per students and RD$10 per
children.
Located on the eastern side of the city at the Mirador del Este
Park , Avenida Estados Unidos, Villa Duarte.
Alcazar de Colon
Alcazar de Colon was the headquarters of Christopher Columbus
court and his wife Maria de Toledo, this palace displays items belonging
to Columbus family , it was built in the 1500s by Christopher Columbus’s
son Diego. It mixed the styles Gothic and the Spanish and Italian
renaissance.
Hours : Tuesday thru Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Phone : 809-682-4750
Price : RD$100 per all adults / RD$20 for students and free for
children under 8 years.
Is located in the Colonial Zone.
Museum of the Dominican Family of the Nineteenth Century
This is a Colonial mansion
that was built in 1503, and displays personal items belonging to
a wealthy Dominican family from the 19th century. Even though its
content is fascinating, most of the museum is the house itself,
which has the only double Gothic window in all of North and South
America.
Hours : Monday thru Saturday from 9:00am to 4:00pm
Phone : 809-689-5000
Price : RD$100 per all adults / RD$20 for students and children.
Located in Padre Billini Street, corner Arzobispo Merino in the
Colonial Zone.
Bellapart Museum
Private collection of the
twentieth century paintings, open to the public.
Hours : Tuesday thru Sunday from 9:00am to 6:00pm and Saturdays
from 9:00am to 12:30pm.
Phone : 809-541-7721
Price : Free
Located in Av. F Kennedy street corner Luis Lembert Peguero, Honda
building.
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramics
Private collection of the
Art of Contemporary Ceramics..
Hours : Monday to Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Phone : 809-540-4350
Price : Free
Located in Victor Garrido Puello street N. 130
Garcia Arevalo Collection of Pre-Hispanic Art
The Museum of the foundation
of Garcia Arevalo is an interesting museum containing the most complete
collection of the Taíno culture in the Caribbean and Pre-Columbian
archaeology.
Hours : Monday thru Friday from 9:00am to 12:00pm.
Phone : 809-540-7777
Price : Free
Located in Av. San Martin N. 279 corner Kennedy street .
The Museum of Niño Trampolín
This Museum allows the children
to learn in a modern and fun space, it has gardens, movie theatre,
library, craftwork expositions and interactive activities as the
simulation of an earthquake, it has eight rooms with permanent exhibitions
and offers guided tours for children of 4 thought 12 years old.
Hours : Tuesday thru Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm and Saturdays
and Sundays from 10:00am to 6:00pm.
Phone : 809-685-5551
Price : RD$100 per adults and RD$60 per children
Located at las Damas street , Rodrigo´s of Bastidas House
at the Colonial Zone.
The Museum of Porcelain
Calle Jose Reyes, Colonial
Zone.
Private museum on the art of china.
Hours : Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., weekends and holidays
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone : 809-688-47-59
Price : 20 pesos
Archaeological Museum La Caleta
Highway Las Americas.
Pre-Columbian archaeological site.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Museum Park Los Tres Ojos
Avenida Las Americas.
Pre-Columbian archaeological site with three caves, inland lakes
and a lake outside.
Phone : 809-788-70-56
Duarte Museum
Street Isabel La catolica
No 308, Colonial Zone.
Museum on the work-life of Juan Pablo Duarte, Father of the Nation.
Hours : Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Phone : 809-687-14-36
Price : 5 pesos
The Philatelic and Numismatic Museum
Central Bank, Street Pedro
Henríquez Urena, Gazcue.
Museum on the heritage National Philatelic and Numismatic.
Hours : Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone : 809-221-91-11
Price : Free
The Museum World of Amber
Street Arzobispo Meriño,
No 452, Colonial Zone.
Private museum on the Amber.
Hours : Monday to Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone : 809-682-33-09
Prix : 50 pesos
The Larimar Museum
Street Isabel La Católica
No 452, Colonial Zone.
Private museum on the stone Larimar.
Hours : Monday to Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone : 809-686-57-00
Price : Free
The Museum of Radio and TV. Lulio Moscoso
Street Dr. Tejada Florentino,
No 8, Villa Consuelo.
Museum on the radio and national television.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone : 809-689-21-21
Price : Free
Museums in Puerto Plata
The Fortress San Felipe de Puerto Plata
At the extreme west of the
Malecon.
Monument which this military life of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Phone : 809-261-60-43
Price : 5 pesos / 3 pesos children and students.
The Museum of Taino Art
Cada domingo de febrero, es uno de los más creativos del pais.
La Isabela
National Park La Isabela Luperon.
Archaeological Site of La Isabela, the first European city in America,
with permanent exhibitions of pre-Columbian and colonial archeology
of the fifteenth century.
Phone : 809-498-35-34
Amber Museum
Street Duarte No 61.
Private museum on the Amber.
Hours : Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone : 809-586-28-48
Museums in Higuey
The museum Casa-Fuerte Juan Ponce de León
In San Rafael del Yuma.
This museum is about the life of Juan Ponce de Leon and the campaigns
of colonization of the island.
Hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Phone : 809-551-01-18
Price : 15 pesos
La Altagracia museum
Museum dedicated to Our Lady of La Altagracia.
Museums in Azua
The historical and archaeological museum "Dr. Estrada Torres"
Library Jimena Fernadez.
Private museum on the history of southern Dominican Republic.
Hours : 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone : 809-516-24-42
Price : Free
Museums in La Romana
The Regional Archaeological Museum Alto de Chavon
Alto de Chavon in a museum
of History and Archaeology Pre-Columbian and early settlement in the
eastern region of the Dominican Republic.
Hours : Tuesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Phone : 809-523-85-54
Price : Free
Cuevas de Las Maravillas
Road of San Pedro KM 16.
Pre-Columbian archaeological site in a cave.
Hours : 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone : 809-390-81-80
Price : 200 pesos / Children 50 pesos.
In Villa Mella
The museum Confraternity of Espíritu Santo de los Congos
Villa Mella.
Its mission is conservation, research, exhibition and dissemination
of national intangible heritage.
Phone : 809-239-95-06
Price : 20 pesos
In Bani
The Historical Museum of Bani
Museum on the history of the
province of Bani.
Hours : Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 12 a.m. and from 2 p.m.
to 5 p.m. Phone : 809-522-33-15
Price : Free
In Bonao
Candido Bido Museum
Street Mella Esq. San Antonio.
Museum of Art, the pre-Columbian archeology and local history.
Hours : Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 a.m. and from 2 p.m
to 5:30 p.m. Phone : 809-525-52-63
In Santiago
Don Tomas Morel Museum
Ave Restauracion
Museum on the local folk heritage.
Phone : 809-582-67-87
The Cultural Center Eduardo Leon
Ave 27 de Febrero No 146, Villa
Progreso
Museum of Fine Arts, Pre-Columbian Archaeology and Local History.
Hours : Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone : 809-582-23-15
The museum Restauracion
Monument dedicated to the exploits
of the Restoration of the Republic of 1844 - 1865.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In La Vega
Museum Sitio de la Vega Vieja
Road vieja, Cutupu.
Archaeological Site of Concepción de la Vega, a permanent exhibition
of pre-Columbian and colonial archeology of the fifteenth century.
Hours : Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Price : 50 pesos / Students 25 pesos.
In Dajabon
The museum Imágenes de la Frontera
Street Juan Pablo Duarte.
Museum of local history.
Hours : Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 12pm and from 2pm to 5pm, Saturdays
from 9am to 12pm. Phone : 809-579-84-35
Price : Free
In Salcedo
Hermanas Mirabal Museum
Road Duarte KM 1, Conuco.
Private museum on the life heroines of our country Minerva and Maria
Teresa Mirabal.
In MonteCristi
Casa Museo Maximo Gomez
Av Mella No 39.
Private museum on the life and work of General Maximo Gomez, a hero
of Cuban independence.
Hours : 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Phone : 809-579-24-74
Price : Free
In San Juan de la Maguana
Orlando Martinez museum
This museum is dedicated to Orlando Martinez, a journalist murdered in 1975.