SANTA ANA: CULTURAL ICONS

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