Museo del Autonomismo Puertorriqueño
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Museo del Autonomismo Puertorriqueño in Barrio Segundo
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 Museo del Autonismo Puertorriqueño
Location within Puerto Rico
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| Established | 7 September 2006 |
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Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro |
| Coordinates | 18°0′14″N 66°37′1″W / 18.00389°N 66.61694°WCoordinates: 18°0′14″N 66°37′1″W / 18.00389°N 66.61694°W |
| Type | Political history museum |
| Curator | Dra. Neysa Rodríguez Deynes |
| Owner | Ponce Municipal Government |
Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro
Calle Torres no. 1 at Calle Frontispicio
The Museo del Autonomismo Puertorriqueño (English: Museum of Puerto Rican Autonomism) is a small museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, that showcases the political history of Puerto Rico with an emphasis on the contributions made by the municipality of Ponce and its residents. The museum was established on 7 September 2006.
The museum was established in 2006 under the municipal administration of Mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo.
The museum is located within the grounds of the Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro (English: Román Baldorioty de Castro National Pantheon). The Panteon is a tract of land in Barrio Segundo of the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, originally designed as the city's cemetery, but later converted into what has come to be a famous burial place. Established in 1842, it is Puerto Rico's first (and only) national pantheon. It is the only cemetery dedicated as a museum in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The pantheon, and its Museum of Puerto Rican Autonomism, is located at Number 1 Calle Torres at Calle Frontispicio in Barrio Segundo, Ponce.
The purpose of the museum is to trace the history of autonomism in the Island. In 2009, the municipality also commissioned the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture to perform a study to determine the viability and cost for the total reconstruction of the Pantheon.
The museum has three main permanent collections. The first one portrays Puerto Rico's quest for national autonomy during the 19th century. The second collection displays Puerto Rico's national autonomy during the 20th century, and the third wing is dedicated to the autonomy of the Ponce municipal government. Each display area pinpoints the role of the city of Ponce as the cradle of Puerto Rican autonomism, in particular, the Executive Orders of former governor Rafael Hernández Colón in the development of national autonomism during the second half of the twentieth century, and his leading role of the establishment of Puerto Rico's Law of Autonomous Municipalities of 1991 and the development of municipal autonomy.
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