Museo Bellapart, Santo Domingo

This museum is located on the fifth floor of an award-winning modern building. On display here are paintings and sculptures dating from the post-independence period (after 1844) through the 1960s. Works are separated into four chronological sections: "The Precursors" includes romantic, neoclassical and impressionist works; "The First Masters" features the first modern Dominican painters; "The Exiled" features works by European political refugees who emigrated to the Dominican Republica in the 1930s and 40s; and "The Vanguard" includes works by Dominican painters of the 1950s and 60s. Admission to the museum is free.