Museum of Words and Images
The "Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen" is a civil initiative dedicated to investigate, rescue, preserve and exhibit, cultural elements and history of El Salvador.
A collection of photos, audio, movies, posters and printed material has been given to the Museum by members of the society, who have enthusiastically replied to the call for not letting social memory disappear.
The collection, which was in risk of not being preserved, is now being classified and digitalized.
Expositions regarding topics of identity, culture and historic memory are held. The museum also produces books, audiovisuals and numerous educational and cultural activities.
Among the future plans is to install a permanent exhibit in San Salvador, and keep other on going activities in farther places in the country.
Itinerant Expositions: "La Huella de la Memoria", "Roque Dalton, la palabra del volcán", "Imágenes de la Guerra y la Paz", "Prudencia Ayala, the fight for Human Rights". "Kabrakan, la furia de los dioses" (History of El Salvador and its earthquakes). The museum is currently exhibiting the work of Salarrue (Salvador Salazar Arrue), an artist with multiple facets: writer, painter and sculptor.
The photograph collection includes over 40.000 pictures of El Salvador: contemporary history, archaeology, anthropology, writers' illustrations, and war and peace images.
Audioteca: Magnetic Recordings of cultural topics and contemporary history. Character voices, Human Rights testimonies, studies about the situation of Women in El Salvador, and contemporary history. Broadcast Files of Radio "Venceremos" and Radio "Farabundo Martí".
Film Collection: Where many films about the culture, history and fiction created in El Salvador have been rescued. It owns a complete archive of movement images about the recent conflict.