Zobeida Fernández González dedicates long hours each day to the conservation of the pieces of the municipal museum Oscar María de Rojas de Cárdenas. His work, like that of many generations of workers who have been part of the life of this building more than 100 years since its foundation, is decisive for the development of its role as guardian of historical memory.
“The work of all the generations that have been related to this cultural center has been essential so that a good part of the collections that arrived to our days of the great museum that gave life to this one remain in good condition.
“This institution has been 117 years since its opening and precisely the building it occupies opened to the public for the first time, although not as a museum but distributed in several rooms of the Town Hall that was here, whose pieces were used to constitute it.
“During the 70’s, it was handed over to the Ministry of Culture for this important institution to function here, and so the collections belonging to that building moved here,” said Danilo Martínez Carmenate, Head of the Research Department at the Oscar María de Rojas Museum.
The existence and preservation of personal objects and documents of more than 90 generals of our independence wars represents only one detail among the numerous collections that attract the attentions of the visitors. “We have thirteen exhibition halls with different themes: minerals and archeology, zoology, national history. The work of Oscar María de Rojas is also reflected as the founder and first director of the museum, an impressive work in the search and collection of pieces throughout the country and the world to be exhibited. Their collections are of great importance, very varied and of great artistic and environmental significance. “
It highlights the excellent construction state, another reason why he was selected by the Provincial Heritage Office as one of the candidates for the National Conservation Prize this year.
“The architecture of the building expresses fundamentally in the neoclassical style, picks up a bit of eclecticism also with the large doorway. In the last years the restoration work has been decisive in different areas of the building: the rehabilitation of the central park was completed, the floors are new, the walls, showcases of exhibition and painting of the hall of the founders also received a deep restoration.”
More than a hundred years of history are sheltered between its walls. Challenge at the same time gratifying and difficult to keep alive both legacy and knowledge that speak of who we were and are, even more in a city of culture and firsts.
Original text by on July 7th, 2017
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