On July 31, 2009, the museum's collection was declared part of the Memory of the World Programme by UNESCO, in order to protect its preservation and facilitate its access through this program.

This did not discourage Luisa De Peña who, with the support of Mrs. Angela Ricart and his mother, continued knocking on doors and moving the project forward.

In the summer of 2000, the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández, provided the Casa de las Fundaciones ("House of the Foundations"), located on Isabel La Católica street, for the establishment of a museum.

Notable collaborators included Dr. Roberto Cassá, the president of the Dominican Academy of History and historians Emilio Cordero Michel, Francisco Henríquez, and Franklin Franco.

Later and through the "Fundación Héroes del 30 de Mayo" they got a house on Calle Arzobispo Nouel, donated by the VICINI Group (now INICIA).

The permanent exhibition begins with an explanatory preamble about what dictatorships are and the dismantling of a whole series of myths that the propaganda machine of the Rafael Trujillo regime created and rooted in the Dominican collective belief.

It is located at 210 Arzobispo Nouel Street in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo and is one of the main tourist attractions in the area.