Museum of Comayagua

Typewriters in the museum dating from colonial era.

The property was built at the end of the 16th century as the private home of Francisco del Barco y Santiponce, the Spanish conqueror of San Jorge de Olancho. The house has a typical Spanish colonial design of a high class family of the time. After the death of Francisco del Barco y Santiponce, the house became the property of his granddaughter Juana del Barco. In the 18th century, the house became the property of Joaquín Fernández Lindo y Molina, councilor of the Comayagua City Council. His son, Juan Lindo, was a royal second lieutenant of the city and political chief and mayor of the province of Comayagua, then a deputy in the National Constituent Assembly and finally president of Honduras.

In 1804, the house was inhabited by the then dean of the Guatemalan Bar Association, Norberto Serrano Polo, legal advisor to the Comayagua Municipality. In 1862, in the Republican era, the property became the Presidential House of Honduras after being confiscated by President José María Molina in 1860. When the Honduran capital was transferred for the first time to Tegucigalpa, the house stopped working as the house presidential for a period until it became so when the government of Don Ponciano Leiva Madrid transferred the capital to Comayagua again.In 1880, when the capital was finally transferred permanently to Tegucigalpa, the house was no longer a presidential house for good.

From the end of the 19th century and until 1940 the house had various administrative functions of the city.In 1940 a part of the building is designated as a private museum.In the 1970s, the house became the property of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History under the name of "Museo Regional de Arqueología de Comayagua" .In 1995 it became the headquarters of the "Comayagua Colonial" program, being the pilot project, housing the offices of the Master Plan and the Workshop School.[2]