The Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana holds in its different rooms the story of those heroes and heroines who mostly died in the struggle, resistance and defense of the freedom, justice and dignity of the Dominican people.Opened in 2011, holds a collection of over 150,000 pieces and documents, which honor the more than 50,000 people, according to unpublished records, were victims of Dominican the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.Unique in its kind in the country, you can make the tour without a guide and uses state of the art digital appliances where you can hear and see unreleased recordings and videos, and to give visitors an even more striking experience, in the basement they recreate a torture chamber tha same as those used during the Trujillo dictatorship.The Resistance Museum’s mission is the collection, organization, cataloging, preservation, research, dissemination and exhibition of goods of tangible and intangible assets for the struggles of several generations of Dominicans during the dictatorship of Rafael L. Trujillo, its antecedents and consequences.
Use audiovisual resources, supplemented by files of the heroes and survivors and witnesses, recordings, photographs and videos, settings, slideshows and models depicting the torture prisons and certain historical episodes. Collection of the Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance was declared UNESCO
The museum features an auditorium, a documentation center and a shop where they sell books and souvenirs.
One of many Museums Dominican Republic