Museo de las Américas

Museo de las Américas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a multidisciplinary museum founded in 1992 by Ricardo Enrique Alegría Gallardo to present the arts, folklore, architecture, and history of the Americas, with special emphasis on Puerto Rico’s place within the wider hemisphere. Its permanent exhibitions explore popular arts, African heritage, Indigenous peoples, and the conquest and colonization that shaped Puerto Rican nationhood. The museum occupies the former Ballajá Barracks in Old San Juan, a Spanish colonial military building erected between 1854 and 1864, later restored after the Government of Puerto Rico acquired it in 1976 for cultural and educational use.