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07-19-2011, 02:00 PM
President Leonel Fernandez did the honors to inaugurate the Centro Cultural de las Telecomunicaciones (CCT), a state-of-the-art museum highlighting the history and evolution of communications in the Dominican Republic. President of the Board of directors of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), David Perez Taveras said that the new museum had cost more than RD$400 million.

He stressed the importance of the audiovisual archives at the museum that will be available for research at no cost to the general public.

The museum curator is Margarita Gonzalez who worked with architect Guaroa Noboa, responsible for the physical structure.

The center is located in the old telecommunications building in the Colonial City. It has three levels with four halls: Communication to Telecommunication, Telephones, Radio and TV, and a Hall of the Future of Telecommunications. The center is open to the general public on Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, Saturdays from 9am to 9pm and Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Admission is RD$100 for children, RD$200 for adults and US$10 foreigners. For the first month, admission is free.

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