The Caguas Museum of History (

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: ''Museo de Historia de Caguas'', also often referred to as ''Museo de Caguas'') is a history museum located in the old city hall of the municipality of

Caguas, Puerto Rico Caguas (, ) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey. Caguas was founded ...

. This building is located on Muñoz Rivera Street on the western edge of ''Plaza Palmer'', the main town square. Caguas Pueblo, which is the historic and administrative center of the municipality. The museum consists of five exhibitions each dedicated to either a historical era or a particular aspect of the Puerto Rican and local ''Criollo'' identity and

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

. The term ''Criollo'', outside of its historical connotations, is often used to describe natives and residents of the city of Caguas regardless of race or ethnicity. The term comes from one of the city's nicknames: la ''Ciudad Criolla'' ('C''riollo city'''), which also lends the term to numerous local sports teams.

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Museo de Historia de Caguas (in English)

Virtual tour of the museum (in Spanish)
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