Museo de Arte de Ponce — Attraction in Ponce

The museum is beautiful and the art is world class with a dash of Puerto Rican! So many things to learn here, but I have to say that the tour process is a little muddy. The website says tours in English and Spanish are offered at 11:00 and 2:00, however, good luck getting a tour in English. First time we went, they told us there was no English speaking Docent that day. So last week I sent an email AND a message on Facebook requesting a tour in English at 11:00 on Wednesday... no reply. So we showed up at 10:30 and were told that the tour just began in Spanish. The process seems to be this: Show up at some time prior to 11:00 and if you express interest in a tour, you get to choose the language and the start time. After a lot of phone calls and attempts to put us off, we were finally given the tour in English, and it was awesome! I'm sure you could take the tour 50 times and learn something new and wonderful each time. While I understand that Puerto Rico is on "island time" and I fully embrace that... being a tourist attraction, they could be a little more understanding of their audience and try to be clear and precise in their posting of tour times. Fabulous Museum, so-so...

Shameful! How positively horrible that a museum of this caliber - home of the famous FLAMING JUNE - is open ONE (1) day a week! What is wrong with the financially privileged local residents (and local community in general) that they haven't come together to organize volunteers and develop a way by which the museum can be open 7 days a week?! SHAME ON YOU ALL: the local community, the people of Puert Rico, and the local and Commonwealth governments. 😳🙈 😥 I am not a resident of Puerto Rico but my sister [10 years my senior] moved to the island in 1970, became a Full Professor at Catholic University, Ponce and introduced me to this very fine museum when I was only 12 years old. I tried to take my 8-year-old grandniece to the museum only to discover the travesty of its current...

Really disappointed with my experience. The security guard let us in but there was no one working inside so we just walked around and saw all the art pieces on all three floors. There was only a dozen art pieces to see, barely anything. After that we came back down and there was finally a worker there in the gift shop so we asked about what there is to see and he let us now that there was a part of the museum closed due to construction and we had to pay $6 each. I thought we were able to see something else if we paid but turns out had already seen everything. I’m pretty sure you can just walk in and look at everything without paying but we didn’t know. I would not recommend coming here, waste of...