Museo de las Casas Reales

A museum of colonial history occupying a stately sixteenth-century building on Calle Las Damas that once housed the royal courts and governor's offices of the Spanish crown. Its galleries reconstruct the daily life, administration and maritime commerce of the early colony, with period furniture, weapons, coins and treasures recovered from shipwrecks. The Renaissance stonework of the building is itself an exhibit. It provides essential context for Santo Domingo's role as the first seat of Spanish rule in America.