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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<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>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> | ||
Website #3: [https://www.librarything.com/venue/44269/Biblioteca-Nacional-de-Panam%C3%A1-National-Library-of-Panama National Library of Panama] | Website #3: [https://www.librarything.com/venue/44269/Biblioteca-Nacional-de-Panam%C3%A1-National-Library-of-Panama National Library of Panama] | ||
== Museums == | == Museums == | ||
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Archives[edit | edit source]
National Archives of Panama
Calidonia
Panama City
Website: Archivo Nacional de Panamá
- 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: Records of the Panama Canal
- These records are part of the United States National Archives Federal Records from 1848 to 1984.
Central American Archives
4th Avenue, 7th and 8th Streets, Zone 1
Guatemala City, Guatemala
- This History of the General Archive of Central America located in Guatemala gives more detail on the types of records held.
- CRL (Center for Research Libraries) Acquires Central American Archives
- Finding Aid
- Costa Rica Catalogue Search
- Accessing the CRL Collections Information on borrowing records
- "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."[1]
Libraries[edit | edit source]
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
Telephone: (507) 221 8360
Website: Biblioteca Nacional
Website #2: National Library of Panama
Website #3: National Library of Panama
Museums[edit | edit source]
Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama (Museo Afro-Antillano de Panama)
Calle 24 y Avenida Justo Arosemena
Calidonia
Panama City
Telephone: (507) 501-4130/501-4131
Email: info@samaap.org
Website: Afro-Antillean Museum
Website #2: Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama
Website #3: Afro-Antillian Museum
Website #4: 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
Telephone: (507) 226-8915/226-9364/226-1757
Email: patronato@panamaviejo.org
Email #2: info@panamaviejo.org
Email #3: info@patronatopanamaviejo.org
Website: Museum of Old Panama
Website #2: Museum of Old Panama
Website #3: Sitio Arqueológico Panamá Viejo
Website #4: Conjunto Monumental Histórico Panamá Viejo
- 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
Telephone: (800) 621-6044/(773) 955-4545
Email: Special@uflib.ufl.edu
Website: Canal Zone Records
- 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
Telephone: (507) 211-1649/211-1650
Email: info@museodelcanal.com
Website: Museum of the Interoceanic Canal of Panama
Website #2: Museo del Canal
Website #3: Canal Museum
- 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.
Panama History Museum
Avenida 7 Central
Municipal Palace
San Felipe
Panama City
Telephone: (507) 501-4128/228--6231
Email: museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa
Website: Museum of History
Website #2: History Museum of Panama
Website #3: History Museum of Panama
- 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.
Royal Customs House of Portobelo
Calle Genea
Portobelo, Colón
Website: Real Aduana de Portobelo
Website #2: Portobelo Royal Customs House Museum
- 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.
For a list of museums in Panama, go to List of museums in Panama in Wikipedia.
- ↑ "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)