Museo del Hombre Dominicano

An anthropology museum within the Plaza de la Cultura devoted to the peoples and cultures of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present. Its extensive collection of Taíno artefacts, including ceremonial stone objects, pottery and carved idols, is among the most important in the Caribbean. Further galleries trace African heritage, colonial society and popular carnival traditions with costumes and masks. Housed in a concrete modernist building, it offers a thorough grounding in the ethnographic history of the country.