Military History Museum of Honduras (Museo de Historia Militar) description and photos - Honduras: Tegucigalpa (Topic)

Military History Museum of Honduras (Museo de Historia Militar) description and photos - Honduras: Tegucigalpa. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Museo de Historia Militar.

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The Honduras War Museum is housed in the former San Francisco barracks. The building is very old - in 1592 the monastery of San Diego de Alcala was founded here, the left wing of which was destroyed in 1730. The barracks were built nearby in 1731 from adobe bricks on stone foundations; the floors and load-bearing walls were made of timber, the roofs were covered with clay tiles.

The structures of the San Diego de Alcala Monastery featured long corridors with arched ceilings supported by wooden columns; the monks' rooms were small and dark, inside the main building were a pantry, a kitchen, a dining room and study, a walking area, classrooms with benches for seminarians. Since 1802, in the classrooms of the monastery, they studied Latin grammar, writing, arithmetic, philosophy and religion.

In 1828, the monks were expelled from their cells, and a military base of the revolutionary troops was placed on the premises. For more than 100 years of subsequent history, the building was occupied by a printing house, a military school, a department of the National University and military headquarters. Many times the building has undergone repairs and restructuring after damage during the next coup.

Since 1983, this building has been occupied by the Museum of Military History of Honduras, which displays documents, weapons, ancient artifacts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1999, the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Honduras, Brigadier General Daniel Lopez Carballo, ordered the army's engineering department to complete the restoration of the building.

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