Did you know that in the middle of the 20th century, Puerto Rico was one of the primary manufacturers of women’s foundation garments sold in the US? 

There’s so much history about Puerto Rico to be learned from a visit to The Museum of the Old Colony, on view through March 14 at @cadvc_umbc. 

This art installation by Pablo Delano uses appropriated imagery, film clips, and objects to ironically bear witness to the colonial oppression imposed by the U.S. institutional and cultural fabric on virtually all aspects of Puerto Rican life since the 1898 occupation. With sardonic humor, The Museum of the Old Colony references traditional anthropological museums and their use of ethnographic imagery and didactic texts. 

Stop by the CADVC in the Fine Arts building today! 

More: cadvc.umbc.edu