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Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

  • Address Avenida Pedro Henríquez Ureña
    Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte
    Santo Domingo
    Dominican Republic
  • Phone number+1 809 687 3622
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This anthropological museum is committed to the advancement of the native peoples of the Dominican Republic. Inside, museum visitors will find a variety of pre-Columbian artifacts, including a stone with manatee incrustation, ceremonial axes, a ceremonial seat call a duho, a carved vomiting spatula used by shamans on drug-induced vision quests, amulets, and a ceremonial tray. Visitors can tour the museum on their own or join a guided tour. Tours are recommended.

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Great place!

 by  A Yahoo! Contributor  on  2007-06-06

I liked all the ceremonial objects because they let me learn about the culture and what it was like to live as a native person

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Museum of the Dominican People

 by  A Yahoo! Contributor  on  2006-03-25

A great value at 15 pesos, although like all Dominican musuems, air conditioning is non-existent. This musuem traces the history of the Dominic...

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