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| == Archives == | | == Archives == |
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| '''National Archives of Panama'''<br>Calidonia<br>Panama City<br>Website: [http://www.archivonacional.gob.pa/ Archivo Nacional de Panamá]<br> | | '''National Archives of Panama'''<br>Calidonia<br>Panama City, Panama<br>Website: [http://www.archivonacional.gob.pa/ Website]<br> |
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| :The National Archives of Panama contains court records, notary records for all provinces of Panama, a digital collection of all bills that have been passed since 1934 (bills passed between 1903-1934 are too fragile to digitize), land records, etc.
| | {{Block indent|The National Archives of Panama contains court records, notary records for all provinces of Panama, a digital collection of all bills that have been passed since 1934 (bills passed between 1903-1934 are too fragile to digitize), land records, etc.}} |
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| '''Records of the Panama Canal'''<br>Website: [https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/185.html Records of the Panama Canal]<br> | | '''Records of the Panama Canal'''<br>[https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/185.html Website]<br> |
| | | Guides to Federal Records<br> |
| :These records are part of the United States National Archives Federal Records from 1848 to 1984.
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| | {{Block indent|These records are part of the United States National Archives Federal Records from 1848 to 1984.}} |
| '''Central American Archives'''<br>4th Avenue, 7th and 8th Streets, Zone 1<br>Guatemala City, Guatemala
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| :This [https://aprende-guatemala-com.translate.goog/cultura-guatemalteca/general/historia-del-archivo-general-de-centroamerica-que-se-encuentra-en-guatemala/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc History of the General Archive of Central America located in Guatemala] gives more detail on the types of records held.
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| :[https://www.crl.edu/news/crl-acquires-central-american-archives CRL (Center for Research Libraries) Acquires Central American Archives]
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| ::[http://rosspub.com/findaid.php Finding Aid]
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| ::[https://catalog.crl.edu/Search/Results?type=AllFields&lookfor=Costa%20Rica&redirect_src_path=/search/Y&SEARCH=Costa%20Rica&searchscope=1 Costa Rica Catalogue Search]
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| ::[https://catalog.crl.edu/Content/access Accessing the CRL Collections] Information on borrowing records
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| :"The Archivo General de Centroamérica (Central American Archives) 1544-1821, in Guatemala, is the most comprehensive collection found anywhere in the world of historical records spanning the period of Spanish rule in the Americas. The holdings of the Archivo include myriad types of documents covering a host of cultural, legislative, judicial, fiscal, economic, religious, military, agricultural and commercial matters pertaining to the Kingdom of Guatemala, an area which, from the time of the Conquest in 1544 through 1821, embraced modern-day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Mexican State of Chiapas."<ref>"Archivo General de Centro America, 1544-1821. Guatemala." at Center for Research Libraries. https://catalog.crl.edu/Record/ab5229b5-a49e-5e58-8fad-e16946ba2a03, accessed 18 October 2022. CRL purchased microfilms of the complete set of the Archivo General de Centroamérica (Central American Archives, or CAA)</ref>
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| == Libraries == | | == Libraries == |
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| '''The National Library of Panama'''<br>Ernesto J. Castillero R. National Library<br>Omar Recreational Park<br>Avenida Belisario Porras "Vía Porras"<br>Corregimiento de San Francisco, City of Panama<br> | | '''The National Library of Panama'''<br>Ernesto J. Castillero R. National Library<br>Omar Recreational Park<br>Avenida Belisario Porras "Vía Porras"<br>Corregimiento de San Francisco, City of Panama, Panama<br> |
| Telephone: (507) 221 8360<br>Website: [http://www.binal.ac.pa/ Biblioteca Nacional]<br>Website #2: [https://travel.sygic.com/en/poi/national-library-of-panama-poi:27692 National Library of Panama]<br> | | Telephone: (507) 221 8360<br>[http://www.binal.ac.pa/ Website] |
| Website #3: [https://www.librarything.com/venue/44269/Biblioteca-Nacional-de-Panam%C3%A1-National-Library-of-Panama National Library of Panama] | |
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| == Museums == | | == Museums == |
| | '''Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama''' (Museo Afro-Antillano de Panama)<br>Calle 24 y Avenida Justo Arosemena<br>Calidonia<br>Panama City, Panama<br>Telephone: (507) 501-4130/501-4131<br> |
| | Email: [mailto:info@samaap.org info@samaap.org]<br>[https://www.facebook.com/samaapanama/ Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afroantillano de Panamá - Samaap] |
| | {{Block indent|The popular Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum may showcase the history, politics and influence of French and American workers who helped construct the Panama Canal, but the Afro-Antillean Museum is the place for travelers who want to learn more about the impact the nation’s West Indian community had on developing the infrastructure that still keeps this Central America destination up and running.}} |
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| | '''Museum of Old Panama'''<br>Vía Cincuentenario<br>Lefevre Park<br>Panama City, Panama<br>Telephone: (507) 226-8915/226-9364/226-1757<br> |
| | Email: [mailto:patronato@panamaviejo.org patronato@panamaviejo.org] |
| | {{Block indent|The museum shows us the history and life of Panama from before the arrival of the Spaniards to colonize the Panamanian lands, until the destruction of it by piracy. In the photo we can see a model of how Panama was the old city back then.}} |
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| | '''Panama Canal Museum'''<br>George A. Smathers Libraries<br>University of Florida<br>Gainesville, Panama<br>Telephone: (800) 621-6044/(773) 955-4545<br> |
| | Email: [mailto:Special@uflib.ufl.edu Special@uflib.ufl.edu]<br>[https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/ Website] |
| | {{Block indent|The Panama Canal Museum Collection includes more than 16,500 objects --photographs, artwork, newspapers, books and ephemera -- that document the history of the United States in Panama.}} |
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| | '''Panama Canal Museum'''<br>Plaza de la Independencia<br>Calle 5a Este<br>San Felipe<br>Panama City, Panama<br>Telephone: (507) 211-1649/211-1650<br> |
| | Email: [mailto:info@museodelcanal.com info@museodelcanal.com]<br>[https://www.museodelcanal.com/visita/ Website] |
| | {{Block indent|The Panama Canal Museum is located in a beautifully restored building that was once the office space of the French Canal Company, the U.S. Isthmian Canal Commission offices and then, in 1912, the main Post Office}} |
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| | '''Panama History Museum'''<br>Avenida 7 Central<br>Municipal Palace<br>San Felipe<br>Panama City, Panama<br>Telephone: (507) 501-4128/228--6231<br> |
| | Email: [mailto:museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa]<br> |
| | {{Block indent|The collections that make up the Museum of History of Panama, are grouped following the accrual of the History of the country, generally established by the common of the national historians and officialized in the textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education as follows: 1st Colonial Period, from 1501 to 1821. 2nd Departmental Period, from 1821 to 1903. 3rd Republican Period, from 1903 to the present. Having chosen the facts and monuments that have had the greatest impact on the life of the country in order that the visitor can get an idea of the importance and the events summits of each historical period and the participation of the different human groups that make up the Panamanian nationality in them; including national and foreign ethnic minorities.}} |
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| '''Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama''' (Museo Afro-Antillano de Panama)<br>Calle 24 y Avenida Justo Arosemena<br>Calidonia<br>Panama City<br>Telephone: (507) 501-4130/501-4131<br>
| | For a list of museums in Panama, go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Panama List of museums in Panama] in Wikipedia. |
| Email: [mailto:info@samaap.org info@samaap.org]<br>Website: [https://www.viator.com/Panama-City-attractions/Afro-Antillean-Museum-Museo-Afro-Antillano-de-Panama/d950-a24276 Afro-Antillean Museum]<br>Website #2: [http://www.inac.gob.pa/museos/101-museo-afro-antillano-de-panama Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama]<br>
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| Website #3: [https://www.inspirock.com/panama/panama-city/afro-antillian-museum-museo-afro-antillano-de-panama-a1102748353 Afro-Antillian Museum]<br>
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| Website #4: [https://www.facebook.com/samaapanama/ Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afroantillano de Panamá - Samaap]
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| :The popular Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum may showcase the history, politics and influence of French and American workers who helped construct the Panama Canal, but the Afro-Antillean Museum is the place for travelers who want to learn more about the impact the nation’s West Indian community had on developing the infrastructure that still keeps this Central America destination up and running.
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| '''Museum of Old Panama'''<br>Vía Cincuentenario<br>Lefevre Park<br>Panama City<br>Telephone: (507) 226-8915/226-9364/226-1757<br>
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| Email: [mailto:patronato@panamaviejo.org patronato@panamaviejo.org]<br>Email #2: [mailto:info@panamaviejo.org info@panamaviejo.org]<br>
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| Email #3: [mailto:info@patronatopanamaviejo.org info@patronatopanamaviejo.org]<br>Website: [http://mypanamalive.com/museo-de-panama-viejo/ Museum of Old Panama]<br>
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| Website #2: [https://impresa.prensa.com/vivir/Museo-Panama-Viejo-abre-puertas_0_4823517652.html Museum of Old Panama]<br>
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| Website #3: [https://www.facebook.com/sitioarqueologicopanamaviejo/ Sitio Arqueológico Panamá Viejo]<br>
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| Website #4: [https://www.facebook.com/pg/Conjunto-Monumental-Hist%C3%B3rico-Panam%C3%A1-Viejo-1649999818557910/about/?ref=page_internal Conjunto Monumental Histórico Panamá Viejo]
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| :The museum shows us the history and life of Panama from before the arrival of the Spaniards to colonize the Panamanian lands, until the destruction of it by piracy. In the photo we can see a model of how Panama was the old city back then.
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| '''Panama Canal Museum'''<br>George A. Smathers Libraries<br>University of Florida<br>Gainesville<br>Telephone: (800) 621-6044/(773) 955-4545<br> | | ==Records Office== |
| Email: [mailto:Special@uflib.ufl.edu Special@uflib.ufl.edu]<br>Website: [https://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/pcm/Research/records.aspx Canal Zone Records]
| | Birth, marriage, and death certificates can be requested from overseas by sending a '''written request''' and '''payment ($9) to cover postage and handling.''' |
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| | '''Send request to:'''<br> |
| | {{Block indent|[https://www.tribunal-electoral.gob.pa/direccion-nacional-del-registro-civil/ Tribunal Electoral de Panama, Registro Civil]<br>|2}} |
| | {{Block indent|Apartado 0816-01504<br>|2}} |
| | {{Block indent|Panama, Republica de Panama<br>|2}} |
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| | {{Block indent|Telephone: (507) 504-6253 <br>|2}} |
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| :The Panama Canal Museum Collection includes more than 16,500 objects --photographs, artwork, newspapers, books and ephemera -- that document the history of the United States in Panama.
| | The following information should be included (as much as possible):<br> |
| | | *Birth record - Complete name, date of birth, place of birth, name of parents and national ID (cedula) |
| '''Panama Canal Museum'''<br>Plaza de la Independencia<br>Calle 5a Este<br>San Felipe<br>Panama City<br>Telephone: (507) 211-1649/211-1650<br>
| | *Marriage record - Complete name of the bride and groom, date of marriage, place, and the national IDs of the bride and groom |
| Email: [mailto:info@museodelcanal.com info@museodelcanal.com]<br>Website: [http://museodelcanal.com/ Museum of the Interoceanic Canal of Panama]<br>
| | *Death record - Complete name of the deceased, place of death and general information about the person's birth |
| Website #2: [https://www.facebook.com/MuseodelCanal Museo del Canal]<br>Website #3: [http://cascoviejo.com/canal-museum/ Canal Museum]
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| :The Panama Canal Museum is located in a beautifully restored building that was once the office space of the French Canal Company, the U.S. Isthmian Canal Commission offices and then, in 1912, the main Post Office. It is full of artifacts and information. The Interoceanic Canal Museum of Panama is a permanent, non-profit institution, at the service of society and its development, open to the public; that acquires, preserves, investigates, interprets, disseminates and exposes the testimonies of the history of Panama and its Canal, for education, knowledge and the delight of the public that visits it.
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| '''Panama History Museum'''<br>Avenida 7 Central<br>Municipal Palace<br>San Felipe<br>Panama City<br>Telephone: (507) 501-4128/228--6231<br>
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| Email: [mailto:museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa]<br>Website: [http://www.inac.gob.pa/museos/99-museo-de-historia Museum of History]<br>
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| Website #2: [https://www.panamaparaninos.com/paseos/museos/museo-de-historia-de-panama History Museum of Panama]<br>
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| Website #3: [https://quecultura.gob.pa/espacios-culturales/museos/museo-de-historia-de-panam%C3%A1 History Museum of Panama]
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| :The collections that make up the Museum of History of Panama, are grouped following the accrual of the History of the country, generally established by the common of the national historians and officialized in the textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education as follows: 1st Colonial Period, from 1501 to 1821. 2nd Departmental Period, from 1821 to 1903. 3rd Republican Period, from 1903 to the present. Having chosen the facts and monuments that have had the greatest impact on the life of the country in order that the visitor can get an idea of the importance and the events summits of each historical period and the participation of the different human groups that make up the Panamanian nationality in them; including national and foreign ethnic minorities.
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| '''Royal Customs House of Portobelo'''<br>Calle Genea<br>Portobelo, Colón<br>
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| Website: [https://www.lonelyplanet.com/panama/portobelo/attractions/real-aduana-de-portobelo/a/poi-sig/481886/358526 Real Aduana de Portobelo]<br>
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| Website #2: [http://www.panama-museums.com/en/aduana.aspx Portobelo Royal Customs House Museum]
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| :Under renovation at the time of research, the handsome, two-story Royal Customs House of Portobelo was originally built in 1638 to serve as the contaduría (counting house) for the king’s gold. Now the two main rooms house permanent exhibitions, including replicas of Spanish-colonial rifles, sketches of Portobelo’s forts, 20th-century black-and-white photos of the town and a few dozen rusty cannonballs.
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| For a list of museums in Panama, go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Panama List of museums in Panama] in Wikipedia.
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| [[Category:Panama|Archives]][[Category:Panama Archives and Libraries]] | | [[Category:Panama|Archives]][[Category:Panama Archives and Libraries]] |
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National Archives of Panama
Calidonia
Panama City, Panama
Website: Website
The National Archives of Panama contains court records, notary records for all provinces of Panama, a digital collection of all bills that have been passed since 1934 (bills passed between 1903-1934 are too fragile to digitize), land records, etc.
Records of the Panama Canal
Website
Guides to Federal Records
U.S. National Archives
These records are part of the United States National Archives Federal Records from 1848 to 1984.
The National Library of Panama
Ernesto J. Castillero R. National Library
Omar Recreational Park
Avenida Belisario Porras "Vía Porras"
Corregimiento de San Francisco, City of Panama, Panama
Telephone: (507) 221 8360
Website
Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama (Museo Afro-Antillano de Panama)
Calle 24 y Avenida Justo Arosemena
Calidonia
Panama City, Panama
Telephone: (507) 501-4130/501-4131
Email: info@samaap.org
Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afroantillano de Panamá - Samaap
The popular Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum may showcase the history, politics and influence of French and American workers who helped construct the Panama Canal, but the Afro-Antillean Museum is the place for travelers who want to learn more about the impact the nation’s West Indian community had on developing the infrastructure that still keeps this Central America destination up and running.
Museum of Old Panama
Vía Cincuentenario
Lefevre Park
Panama City, Panama
Telephone: (507) 226-8915/226-9364/226-1757
Email: patronato@panamaviejo.org
The museum shows us the history and life of Panama from before the arrival of the Spaniards to colonize the Panamanian lands, until the destruction of it by piracy. In the photo we can see a model of how Panama was the old city back then.
Panama Canal Museum
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
Gainesville, Panama
Telephone: (800) 621-6044/(773) 955-4545
Email: Special@uflib.ufl.edu
Website
The Panama Canal Museum Collection includes more than 16,500 objects --photographs, artwork, newspapers, books and ephemera -- that document the history of the United States in Panama.
Panama Canal Museum
Plaza de la Independencia
Calle 5a Este
San Felipe
Panama City, Panama
Telephone: (507) 211-1649/211-1650
Email: info@museodelcanal.com
Website
The Panama Canal Museum is located in a beautifully restored building that was once the office space of the French Canal Company, the U.S. Isthmian Canal Commission offices and then, in 1912, the main Post Office
Panama History Museum
Avenida 7 Central
Municipal Palace
San Felipe
Panama City, Panama
Telephone: (507) 501-4128/228--6231
Email: museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa
The collections that make up the Museum of History of Panama, are grouped following the accrual of the History of the country, generally established by the common of the national historians and officialized in the textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education as follows: 1st Colonial Period, from 1501 to 1821. 2nd Departmental Period, from 1821 to 1903. 3rd Republican Period, from 1903 to the present. Having chosen the facts and monuments that have had the greatest impact on the life of the country in order that the visitor can get an idea of the importance and the events summits of each historical period and the participation of the different human groups that make up the Panamanian nationality in them; including national and foreign ethnic minorities.
For a list of museums in Panama, go to List of museums in Panama in Wikipedia.
Birth, marriage, and death certificates can be requested from overseas by sending a written request and payment ($9) to cover postage and handling.
Send request to:
Apartado 0816-01504
Panama, Republica de Panama
Telephone: (507) 504-6253
The following information should be included (as much as possible):
- Birth record - Complete name, date of birth, place of birth, name of parents and national ID (cedula)
- Marriage record - Complete name of the bride and groom, date of marriage, place, and the national IDs of the bride and groom
- Death record - Complete name of the deceased, place of death and general information about the person's birth
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