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The Casa Santo Domingo Cultural Center has a large collection of colonial objects, which has been formed through the years. The collection is very complete and is totally registered at the Registry Department of the General Directorship of Cultural and Natural Patrimony of Guatemala. From domestic sculptures to fine silver religious objects, it can be found in this collection. Part of it is exhibited in the main corridors of the hotel and in its rooms. Another part of this collection, extremely beautiful and unique, was reserved so that everybody could admire it at the Colonial Museum.
The Colonial Museum was installed in a space outside the church that was used as a burial ground for children. Here there is a fountain that was probably used as a watering place. A mezzanine was built here that duplicated the capacity of the space, because it resulted in a second floor that permitted the exposition of 50 colonial objects of extraordinary quality produced during the 17th, 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, and that includes religious paintings, silver objects such as lecterns, monstrance, crowns and chalices; sculptures of domestic wood and great format of angels, saints, virgins, cherubs, souls, and painted metals, most of which are protected in glass showcases.
The archaeological sample seen at the Archaeological Museum is made up of a complete collection of more than 50 ceramic and stone objects, such as feminine figurines, glasses, plates, bowls, funerary urns, incense burners, hatchets and ceremonial yokes that mainly correspond to the Classical Period (200-900 AD), the era of greatest splendour of the Mayan Culture. Also, there is a collection of colonial ceramic jugs that were probably used to keep grains or liquids and that were found on site at the time of the archaeological investigation.
Pre–Columbian Art and Modern Glass – Art and beauty in earthenware, stone and glass – It is a comparative sample between an archaeological collection and one of modern glass, where the similarities between the two of them are shown.
Throughout the way, the curious person may observe how work is done in the wax and majolica earthenware workshops, two great traditional art expressions of Antigua, and he or she will have the opportunity to buy hand made artefacts.
Besides visiting the museums that are part of Casa Santo Domingo, the guests can visit the following exhibits:
• Artes y Artesanías Populares de Sacatepéquez (Sacatepéquez Popular Arts and Handicrafts) that has a sample of the old traditions of this region ’s towns.
• Farmacia de Guatemala (Guatemalan Pharmacy) – which contains the furniture that belonged to the Farmacia Oriental in Guatemala City.
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