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for Museum of the Word and the Image) is an innovative museum located in
San Salvador, El Salvador
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. It was founded in the late 1990s by the Venezuelan journalist
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi as a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...
dedicated to collecting and preserving memories of the
Salvadoran civil war
The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Ma ...
, incorporating memories across the political spectrum. The general enthusiasm of the public quickly prompted the MUPI to expand and it now includes a variety of exhibits that deal with various moments in the nation's past.
Projects
One of its projects has been the production of the documentary ''Cicatriz de la Memoria'' (''Scars of Memory'') with U.S. historian Jeffrey Gould
Latin American History at Indiana University
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''La Matanza'' (Spanish for "The Massacre") refers to a communist- indigenous rebellion in El Salvador that took place between 22 and 25 January 1932. It was succeeded by large-scale government killings in western El Salvador, which resulte ...
. Integral to the project was the idea of the "cine-forum," in which the MUPI took the documentary "on tour" throughout the country and abroad, organizing screenings in community centers, schools, and universities, followed by lively discussion sessions. More recently, the MUPI has worked in an exhibit regarding the memory of the massacre of El Mozote
El Mozote is a village in the Morazán Department in El Salvador. It was the site of the El Mozote massacre during the civil war in December 1981 when nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by a Salvadoran Army unit known as the Atlácatl Battalion.
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, and has also worked in collaboration with the art museum MARTE in a joint exhibit about the acclaimed Salvadoran writer and artist, Salarrué
Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (October 22, 1899 – November 27, 1975), known as Salarrué (a derivation of his surnames), was a Salvadorian writer, poet, and painter.
Born in Sonsonate to a well-off family, Salarrué trained a ...
.
Archives
The MUPI has an impressive archive that includes historical photographs, manuscripts, and video recordings:
* Movie archive: considered El Salvador's most important audiovisual archive including takes from the Salvadoran civil war
The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Ma ...
, Salvadoran productions (Baltazar Polio, Alejandro Coto, Guillermo Escalón, etc.) and registers about literature, history, folklore, etc. This archive is used for audiovisual productions, TV programs or educative products.
* Photo archive: contains more than 35,000 images dating from 1872 until present. Most important themes are:
** Images about indigenous culture. 1896
** 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising
''La Matanza'' (Spanish for "The Massacre") refers to a communist- indigenous rebellion in El Salvador that took place between 22 and 25 January 1932. It was succeeded by large-scale government killings in western El Salvador, which resulte ...
.
** Armed conflict 1980 - 1992.
** Personalities collection: Masferrer, Claudia Lars
Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20, 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974. She was the daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon and Carmen Vega Zelayandía.Plumlee, A. ...
, Roque Dalton
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, Monseñor Romero, María de Baratta, etc.
** Kabrakan collection: Images about natural phenomenon in El Salvador: earthquakes, eruptions, tsunami and floodings.
** Women's collection: Prudencia Ayala, Amparo Casamalhuapa, etc.
** History collection: important events in El Salvador.
* Audio archive: conserves Radio Venceremos
Radio Venceremos (Spanish; in English, "'We Shall Overcome' Radio") was an 'underground' radio network of the anti-government Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War. The station "specialized in ideologica ...
transmissions as well as recordings about cultural and contemporary history themes including personalities voices and testimony about human rights or Women's rights in El Salvador.
* Social Science library: especialized in historic investigation and social sciences about El Salvador and Central America.
Local in San Salvador
The museum owns a building in the San Salvador, capital and organizes exhibitions about identity, culture and historic memory. It has various exhibition halls as well as a cinema hall and produces books, audiovisual works and many educational and cultural activities.
References
External links
Museum website
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1990s establishments in El Salvador
Museums in El Salvador
Military and war museums
San Salvador
Salvadoran Civil War
History museums