Museum of Myths and Legends

Museo de los Mitos y Leyendas Tradiciones

This is a museum with two themes. One part commemorates traditional myths and legends, with life size displays of costumes and other traditional objects. The second part commemorates the anti-Somoza activists who were jailed in the building during the 1970s, with drawings on the walls and a prominently displayed statute of an urban guerrilla holding a handmade bomb. Some sarcastically now call it the Museo de las Traiciones (Museum of the Treasons) as a reference to how the Sandinista rank and file has been cheated by president Daniel Ortega and his cronies.

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Getting there

from Central Park SW, 3 blocks south and 1/2 block west

Website

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