Museo de las Casas Reales (Museum of the Royal Houses)

Frommer's Review

Through artifacts, tapestries, maps, and re-created halls, including a courtroom, this museum traces Santo Domingo's history from 1492 to 1821. Gilded furniture, arms and armor, and other colonial artifacts make it the most interesting museum of Old Santo Domingo. It contains replicas of the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, and one exhibit is said to hold some of Columbus's ashes. In addition to pre-Columbian art you can see the main artifacts of two galleons sunk in 1724 on their way from Spain to Mexico, along with remnants of another 18th-century Spanish ship, the Concepción.

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