For the better part of the last 20 years curator/creator/eccentric (to put it mildly) Rolf Shulz has spent a fairly significant fortune building what is probably the most spectacular Castle/Museum of Art on the entire Island of Hispaniola.
It is the kind of fantastic oddity that one would think tourists would arrive by the busload to visit, yet it remains fairly obscure. Perhaps this is in part due to the genuinely bizarre tales of it's creator and the strangeness (and occasionally disturbing) art, but I think it's in large part due to the fact that the vast majority of the works that reside within (and outside of) its walls are the work of Haitian artisans. Not exactly the ideal destination for the Arts & Culture and Dominican Tourism departments to publicize.
I've visited several times and have had the distinctly odd pleasure of speaking at length with Rolf about what his gallery really is and why it exists. I don't want to ruin any surprises there so you'll just have to visit and speak with him yourself - suffice to say it's quite a bit mad and a little bit genius and that Rolf is fully committed to his own brand of creative lunacy.
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