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Archives and Libraries

Archives

Morelia

Archive of the H. Congress of the State of Michoacán (Archivo del H. Congreso del Estado de Michoacán)
Aquiles Serdan 413 Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 312 3418/443 322 8403
Email: andres_garcia.rosales@hotmail.com
Website: Archive of the H. Congress of the State of Michoacán

Casa de Morelos Historical Archive (Archivo Histórico Casa de Morelos)
Av. Morelos Sur 323 Esquina Calle del Licenciado Zoto Saldaña Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 313 2651
Email: casademorelos@prodigy.net.mx
Website: Casa de Morelos Historical Archive

General Archive of Notaries (Archivo General de Notarías)
Av. Periodismo 357 Valladolid
58190 Morelia
Telephone: 443 317 6447/443 317 6457
Email: archivo.notariado@michoacan.gob.mx
Website: General Archive of Notaries

Historical Archive of the Archives Directorate of the Executive Power of the State of Michoacán (Archivo Histórico de la Dirección de Archivos del Poder Ejecutivo del Estado de Michoacán)
Calle Corregidora No. 666 Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 313 0266
Email: vic_aute@hotmail.com
Website: Historical Archive of the Archives Directorate of the Executive Power of the State of Michoacán

Historical Archive of the Federal Urban Normal School “Profr. J. Jesús Romero Flores" (Archivo Histórico de la Escuela Normal Urbana Federal “Profr. J. Jesús Romero Flores”)
Acueducto No. 20 Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 312 2909/443 312 6435
Email: rosalvalemus@hotmail.com
Website: Historical Archive of the Federal Urban Normal School “Profr. J. Jesús Romero Flores"

Historical Archive of the Judicial Branch of the State of Michoacán (Archivo Histórico del Poder Judicial del Estado de Michoacán)
Portal Allende 267 Centro Histórico
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 310 9512
Email: rimahernandez2@yahoo.com.mx
Website: Historical Archive of the Judicial Branch of the State of Michoacán

Historical Archive of the Ministry of Education in the State of Michoacán (Archivo Histórico de la Secretaría de Educación en el Estado de Michoacán)
Morelos Norte No. 131 Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 313 3140/443 317 4951
Website: Historical Archive of the Ministry of Education in the State of Michoacán

Historical Archive of San Miguel Morelia (Archivo Histórico de San Miguel Morelia)
Anexo Catedral por Av. Madero Diócesis de Morelia Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 312 0523
Website: Historical Archive of San Miguel Morelia

Municipal Historical Archive of Morelia (Archivo Histórico Municipal de Morelia)
Galeana 302 Zona Centro
58000 Morelia
Telephone: 443 322 9530/443 322 9531
Email: ahmm.investigacion@gmail.com
Website: Municipal Historical Archive of Morelia

There are 63 archives in 55 municipalities in the State of Michoacán. Here is the website: State of Michoacán Historical Archives.

Libraries

Morelia

Basque Municipal Public Library of Quiroga (Biblioteca Pública Municipal Vasco de Quiroga)
Trabajadores de La Educación No. 359 , Esq. Trabajadores de Agricultura (Clínica del ISSSTE, medicina familiar) FOVISSTE. Jose Ma. Morelos
58120 Morelia
Telephone: 443 314 1388 Coordinación Estatal
Email: bp5936@dgb.gob.mx
Website: Basque Municipal Public Library of Quiroga

Capula Municipal Public Library (Biblioteca Pública Municipal Capula)
Domicilio conocido (Interior del DIF)
58331 Morelia
Email: bp8019@dgb.conaculta.gob.mx
Website: Capula Municipal Public Library

Francisco J. Múgica State Central Public Library (Biblioteca Pública Central Estatal Francisco J. Múgica)
Ticateme 1000 (anexa Planetario) Félix Ireta
58070 Morelia
Telephone: 443 314 4979 Fax 314 4979
Email: bpcemich@correo.conaculta.gob.mx
Website: Francisco J. Múgica State Central Public Library

Municipal Public Library Morelia 450 Anniversary (Biblioteca Pública Municipal Morelia 450 Aniversario)
Bosque Cuauhtémoc s/n
58020 Morelia
Telephone: 443 314 1388 Coord. Estatal
Website: Municipal Public Library Morelia 450 Anniversary

''Municipal Public Library Profra. Marina Lemus Alcantar (Biblioteca Pública Municipal Profra. Marina Lemus Alcantar)
Dinamarca con Nicolás Bravo s/n Villa Universidad
58060 Morelia
Telephone: 443 316 6650
Website: Municipal Public Library Profra. Marina Lemus Alcantar

There are 234 libraries in 112 municipalities in the State of Michoacán. Here is the website: State of Michoacán DGB Libraries.

Museums

Tancítaro

Tancítaro Community Museum (Museo Comunitario de Tancítaro)
Nicolás Bravo s/n Centro
60460 Tancítaro
Telephone: 425 591 5311
Email: jhoancharl@hotmail.com
Website: Tancítaro Community Museum

Tangancícuaro

El Real del Tajo Museum (Museo El Real del Tajo)
Av. Gral. Carlos Salazar Ote. 240 Centro
Tangancícuaro De Arista, Tangancícuaro
Telephone: 355 553 2074
Email: alfernandez@megacable.com.mx
Website: El Real del Tajo Museum

Private museum in whose rooms it exhibits a collection of old photographs of the town, it has instruments and historical documents of the first mine that was in Tangancícuaro, as well as visual reproductions of mining from 1808-1931, in addition to relics from the Colony to the beginning of the last century, which demonstrate the development of mining in the locality. In other spaces are the first sewing machines, photocopiers, record players, adding machines, musical instruments, scales, registers and computers, images of the first vehicles, wagons, among other photographs, which collect the history of the founding families, the architectural changes of the square, of the main streets, the facades of the temples, the income and expenditure books of the first farms that made up the municipality. An important part of the collection is dedicated to the archaeological figures of the Purépecha culture. There are also figures and ceramics from other cultures, such as the Teotihuacan, Olmec, Teco and other Mesoamerican civilizations, since this area was an obligatory step for the trade of these cultures.

Uruapan

Museum of the Four Indigenous Peoples La Huatapera (Museo de los Cuatro Pueblos Indígenas La Huatapera)
Plaza Morelos s/n esq. Vasco de Quiroga Centro
60000 Uruapan
Telephone: 452 524 3434 Fax 524 3434
Website: Museum of the Four Indigenous Peoples La Huatapera

In its main room, dedicated to "The four peoples", the visitor will be able to admire manifestations of the cultural wealth of these peoples through their most representative material work, among which pieces related to their daily, religious, recreational and artistic life stand out. In the permanent room "El maque de Michoacán", the cultural value of a historical line of the artistic production of the Purepecha people can be appreciated.

There are 49 museums in 27 municipalities in the State of Michoacán. Here is the website: State of Michoacán Museums.