Santo Domingo is without doubt the Caribbean city with the most museums. Now the Ministry of Culture announces two more are being prepared for opening to the general public. These are the Undersea Museum that will display the nation’s undersea salvaged heritage, with artifacts dating from the first expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The new museum is dedicated to navigation, maritime commerce and the archaeological discoveries found under the sea in the area around Hispaniola.
The Undersea Museum will be appropriately located at the end of Las Damas Street, in the Atarazanas, that in the 16th century housed the first Customs House in the New World and the first “Casa de Contratación,” the mercantile arm of the Spanish crown that served to channel all goods and services from Spain to its colonies in the Americas.
A second is the Museum of Dominican Music that would be dedicated to promote Dominican music. The set up would be digital, interactive, modern and up to date.
The announcement was made yesterday afternoon by Culture Minister Eduardo Selman, during an interview on the TV program El Despertar on Channel 9, Color Vision.
Minister Selman said that both museums are part of a series of projects initiated by the Ministry of Culture raise the quality of art and culture in the Dominican Republic.
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El Día
21 August 2018
