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Mexico receives 16 Memory of the World UNESCO awards at El Palacio de Minería Fair
February 21, 2016Fray Bernardino de Sahagun's work (1499-1590), musician Julian Carrillo's autograph manuscript scores 1905-1910, Henrietta Yurchenco's sound documents and the Acervos Históricos (Historical Colletions) 1825-1958 from the Documentation and Railway Research Center, among others, are part of the 16 documentary materials that obtained its registration in the Memory of the World Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, for its acronym in Spanish) program.
Because of the actions dedicated towards safeguarding peoples' cultural heritage, as well as its conservation and dissemination, in addition to preserve, evaluate, organize and make available to the public content of historical relevance, the Ministry of Culture, the UNAM as well as public and private institutions received their respective certificates in the Capilla del Palacio de Minería, as part of the International Book Fair.
Accompanied by Mercedes de Vega Armijo, general director of the General Archive of the Nation; Francisco Javier López Morales, director of World Heritage from INAH (for its acronym in Spanish), and the undersecretary general of the Mexican Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO/SEP; César Guerrero Arellano; Rosa María Fernández de Zamora, president of Mexican Committee Memory of the World said that with these recognitions Mexico is placed sixth worldwide, first of Latin America and the Caribbean, and gets thirty-seven registrations nationwide.
In turn, the head of the National Railway Cultural Heritage Preservation Center, Teresa Márquez Martínez said that the registration of Memory of the World is "very important because finally the railway heritage, although it has not all the recognition that deserves in many ways, it is making a space in life and culture. It is important because many people think they are old iron bars.
She commented that both cinema and railways no longer work, they do not realize that "it is the history of the twentieth century, it is the history that built modern Mexico, it is the machine that carried them forward."
It is the first recognition that the center obtains, "and is one of the few to get an industrial heritage in the world."
The worldwide records that got its registration are: the work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), formed by Florentino and Matritense codex presented by Mexico and Italy; as well as the judicial records related to the Mexican amparo (protection) that contributed to the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
While the regional records are for la Correspondencia de la Guerra de Castas (*The Caste War) of Yucatán, preserved by the Department of Culture and Arts of the Government of Yucatan; series and collections of the Municipal Archive of Puebla (1532-1963), in over 25.6 linear meters of documents; the handwritten manuscript scores by musician Julian Carrillo, 1905-1910 (author of Sound 13), preserved by the National Conservatory of Music of the National Institute of Fine Arts.
Regarding the nationwide records, they are the Publicaciones Periódicas Mexicanas (Mexican Periodicals) collection from the National Newspaper Library of Mexico (1728-1917), and the National Newspaper Library of Mexico, UNAM. The National Sound Archive obtained a recognition of Memory of the World for Henrietta Yurchenco's sound documents.
Also, el Canto General de Pablo Neruda (the General Canto of Pablo Neruda) First edition Mexico 1950, preserved by the Historical Library José María Lafragua, of the Autonomous University of Puebla; the Medicinalia Opera. First printed Medicina de América (American Medical) preserved by the Historical Library José María Lafragua of the Autonomous University of Puebla; the negative file, publications and documents of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, preserved by the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Archive; the testimonial film collections of the Mexican Revolution 1898-1932 of the Filmoteca of UNAM (Film Library); the Román Piña Chan collection, of the Autonomous University of Campeche; the personal archive of the architect Mario Pani Darqui, from the Cervantina Library of the Institute of Technology of Estudios Superiores (Higher Education) of Monterrey, and the registration of Gandhi Bookstores promote reading campaign, 2001-2015.
It should be noted that Memory of the World is a program created by UNESCO in 1992 to safeguard world's documentary heritage that represent a universal value.
*The Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901) began with the revolt of native Maya people of Yucatán against the population of European descent, called Yucatecos, who held political and economic control of the region. (Translator’s Note)
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