The Fundacion Cutural de Rio San Juan proposes to build a museum in that city to tell the cultural origins of the northern region. The museum would take three years to build. The plans calls for the construction of five halls. One would be dedicated to archaeological discoveries. Another would be about ethnography, with the history of the freed slaves from the US who migrated to Samana, the Jewish European settlers in Sosua, the Caribbean settlers, the Protestant groups that settled in Puerto Plata, and the Spaniards and Arabs that migrated to the province of Maria Trinidad Sanchez where Rio San Juan is located. Another hall would feature treasures and the story of the sunken galleons in the area. There would be a hall dedicated to carnival on the North Coast, and a fifth to the diversity of religions in the region. The ambitious project calls for the construction of a library, a theater with capacity for 200 persons, and classrooms. The foundation hopes to receive donations from Dominicans living abroad to pay for the RD$40 million project.
