Museo Regional de Occidente
MUSEO REGIONAL DE OCCIDENTE
The Museo
Regional de occidente is the main precind of its kind in the salvadoran city of
Santa Ana. Opened in February 1999, it is located in the building where the
central de Reserva Bank of the city was located and is administered by the
Culture Minister of El Salvador.
It has a large collection of archaeological pieces and
contemporary history of the departments of Santa Ana, Ahuachapán and Sonsonate.
It also has temporary romos, a library, a cafetería and a permanent exhibition
of the history of currency in El Salvador.
History.
The
Museo Regional de Occidente was bom in 1996, on the initiative of the National
council for culture and Art (CONCULTURA), now the Minister Culture Minister of
the Presidency (Seculture), under the coordination of the National Directorate
of cultural Heritage and the Cultural Foundation the 44.
Since 1998, the museum has been operating in the building
where the Central de Reserva Bank was operating in the western área, whose
facilities were suitable for museum use. The permanent numismatic exhibition
was inaugurated on February 2, 1999, in the área of the vault, and with it the
doors of the museum were opened to the public.
From January 2003 to
present, the total administration of the museum gues to CONCULTURA, now the Ministy
of Culture of the presidency, giving the local population and visitors in
general the possibility of approaching archaeological pieces from the región,
information on the contemporary history of the western departments and a
numismatic Salvadoran collection.
Address: Avenida Independencia Sur No. 8, Department of
Santa Ana.
Prices: children under 10 years old free of charge and
people of the oldest age.
If you wish to visit the Museo de Occidente you can visit
it, from Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 pm to
5:00 pm
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