List of museums in Ponce, Puerto Rico facts for kids

World-class Museo de Arte de Ponce, the jewel in the crown of Ponce museums

This is a list of museums in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Both, museums in the city proper as well as Ponce's rural areas are listed. One unique feature about Ponce museums is that the majority of them are housed in historic structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In those cases, the listing below also provided that NRHP registry number.

Museum list summary table

Note: The table that follows lists museums by their year of founding, that is, their year of opening. A listing sorted by any of the other fields can be obtained by clicking on the header of the field. For example, clicking on "Barrio" will sort museums by their barrio location.

No.	Name	Barrio	Location	Type/Use	Year Structure Built	Year Museum Opened	Building Architect	Museum Curator	Style	National Register of Historic Places Listing Number
1	Museo de Arte de Ponce	Canas Urbano	Avenida Las Américas	Art museum	1965	1959	Edward Durell Stone	Cheryl Hartup	Modern	N/A
2	Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes	Tibes	PR-504, km 2.5	Archaeology museum	1982	1982	Unk	Ponce Municipal Government	Modern	78003381
3	Museo Hacienda Buena Vista	Magueyes	PR-123 km. 16.8	Farm museum	1933	1986	Unk	Fideicomiso de Conservación	Spanish Colonial & Ponce Creole	91001499
4	Museo Casa Paoli	Cuarto	C. Mayor, between Luna and Jobos	Biographical museum	1864	1987	Manuel V. Domenech	Néstor Murray-Irizarry?	Neoclassical	09000769
5	Museo de la Masacre de Ponce	Cuarto	C. Marina NB and C. Luna WB	Human rights museum	1910	1988	Blas Silva	ICP	Ponce Creole	05001098
6	Museo Parque de Bombas	Segundo	Plaza Las Delicias	Firefighting museum	1882	1990	Maximo de Meana y Guridi	Pablo Ojeda O'Neill	Gothic Revival, Victorian, Moorish Revival	84003150
7	Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña	Tercero	C. Cristina EB and C. Salud NB	Music museum	1911	1990	Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti	ICP	Neoclassical	N/A
8	Museo Castillo Serrallés	Portugues Urbano	C. Bertoly Final, then Paseo de la Cruceta	Agricultural museum	1933	1991	Pedro Adolfo de Castro	Neysa Rodríguez Deynes	Spanish Colonial Revival	80004494
9	Museo Francisco "Pancho" Coimbre	Quinto	C. Castillo EB and C. Lolita Tizol	Sports museum	1910	1992	Unk	Hector L. Ortiz?	Art Deco	N/A
10	Museo de la Historia de Ponce	Tercero	C. Cristina EB and C. Mayor SB	City history museum	1911	1992	Blas Silva	Maruja Candal Salazar and Neysa Rodriguez Deynes	Classical revival, Art Nouveau, Spanish Revival	88000663
11	Museo de la Arquitectura Ponceña	Segundo	C. Reina WB and C. Mendez Vigo NB	Architecture museum	1912	1996	Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti	ICP	Spanish Colonial Revival	84003151
12	Museo Caja de Muertos	Playa @ Caja de Muertos	Southern end of the Island, next to the Guard Barracks	Marine museum	2005	2005	Troop 104, Juana Diaz	ICP and DRNA	Modern	N/A
13	Museo del Autonomismo Puertorriqueño	Segundo	At PNRBC, C. Torre Final NB	Political history museum	1842	2006	Nieto Blajol Iglesia	Neysa Rodríguez Deynes	Modern	84003149
14	Museo Casa Armstrong-Poventud	Segundo	Across from Ponce Cathedral	Historic house museum	1899	2008	Manuel V. Domenech	ICP	Neoclassical	87001821
15	Museo de la Recordación	Tercero	C. Salud SB and C. Cristina EB	Natural disaster museum	1926	2012	Unk	Ponce Municipal Government	Spanish Colonial Revival	78003381
16	Museo Fundación-Biblioteca Rafael Hernández Colón	Tercero	C. Mayor NB and C. Castillo EB	Political history museum	2015	1992	Manuel V. Domenech	Unk	Neoclassical	N/A
17	Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro	Segundo	C. Torre Final NB	Cemetery museum	1842	1992	Antonio Torruella	Unk	Neoclassical	84003149
18	Museo de Arqueología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico	Canas Urbano	Biblioteca Encarnación Valdés, Avenida Las Américas EB	Archaeology museum	1948	1982	Unk	PUCPR	Modern	N/A

Key:
C. = Calle (street)
NB = Northbound
SB = Southbound
WB = Westbound
EB = Eastbound
Unk = Unknown
N/A = Not applicable