1. History

2. Permanent exhibition
     Room 1, "Geological formation of Honduras"    Room 2, "A complicated and difficult geography"    Room 3, "Historical formation of a nation"    Room 4, "You are Honduras"  

3. References

4. See also

5. External links

The Honduran Museum for National Identity (MIN) is a museum devoted to the acquisition, investigation, conservation and dissemination of historical material relating to the human population of the territory of Honduras. Administered by the Honduran Foundation for National Identity, the MIN is located in the city of Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. It occupies the old Palace of the Ministries, built in the 19th century under Tiburcio Carías Andino's presidency, a building declared a national monument by the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, and it is one of the city's most visited museums. Its exhibits include the "Virtual Copán" room, illustrating the history of the region's gods and kings, as well as rooms exhibiting busts of Honduran national heroes.

History

The Museum for National Identity was inaugurated in 2006. It is a permanent not-for-profit institution, open to the public for study or leisure, and dedicated to the purchase, preservation, investigation, communication and exhibition of material and immaterial evidence of the populations that inhabited and inhabit the Honduran territory. Through these activities, the museum aims to strengthen both historical memory and a sense of national identity.

The building housing the museum was listed as a category "M" monument by the Institute of Anthropology and History of Honduras, due to its value under historical, architectural and landscaping criteria.

The Museum for National Identity is housed in a building previously known as the “Palace of the Ministries”, dating to the year 1880, when president Marco Aurelio Soto laid its foundation stone.

On 30 October 1880, Decree No. 11 (official Gazette 15 from November of the same year) effected the transfer of the Honduran capital from the old colonial city of Comayagua to the city of Tegucigalpa. The government purchased land to construct new state buildings, among them the General Hospital of Tegucigalpa. In May 1926, the hospital was moved and renamed “Saint Felipe General Hospital” and the original building was re-purposed.

The original construction had only one level. In 1933, under the administration of the Doctor and General Tiburcio Carias Andean a second level was added, and the building took its current form. After completing the renovation, many government offices were installed there, and it became known for a short time as the “National Palace”, and later as the “Palace of the Ministries”.

Permanent exhibition

Room 1, "Geological formation of Honduras"

• Geological formations of Honduras.
• Territorial extent.
• Characteristic natural regions.
• Evolution of plant and animal life in the territory.
• History of exploration and organisation of the territory.

Room 2, "A complicated and difficult geography"

• Difficulties throughout the history of Honduras in defining the national territory.
• Impressions of first travellers and chroniclers who described the territory.
• Search for a transisthmic route.
• First appearance of Honduras on a map.
• Origin of Honduran historicity.
• Liberal reforms.

Room 3, "Historical formation of a nation"

• Rupestrian art.
• Mayan sculpture.
• Arrival of the Europeans.
• The Lenca hero Lempira.
• Indigenous resistance.
• Colonial cities.
• First juridical institutions and government in the Federal Republic of Central America.
• Independence.
• Liberal reforms instituted by Francisco Morazán.
• The internal wars.
• Modernisation of the State.
• Importance of telecommunications and the railway in the geographic and political consolidation of Honduras.

Room 4, "You are Honduras"

• Migration from:
  1. Mesoamerica (North).
  2. The Chibcha Zone (South).
  3. The Caribbean region (Central).
  4. Cultural diversity contributed by:
  5. Palestinian immigrants.
  6. Chinese immigrants.
  7. Jewish immigrants.
  8. European immigrants.
  9. Poetry that references and celebrates Honduras and its national symbols.
  10. Villages and faces in the Honduran geography and its surroundings.

References

See also

• Culture of Honduras
• Juan Ramón Molina National Library
• Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia

External links

http://www.min.hn/

https://es-la.facebook.com/pages/museo-para-la-identidad-nacional-de-honduras/59154894323

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