Del océano al verso. Las caracolas de Pablo Neruda

The Archivo Central Andrés Bello, founded in 1994, is one of Universidad de Chile’s main heritage spaces. It seeks to promote critical reflection on the cultural activity of the country through conservation, investigation, education, communication and valorization of its bibliographic, documental, photographic, iconographic and biologic collections. Among its repositories there are five collections that have been declared National Historic Monuments. One of them is the Colección Americana, with more than one thousand books on Latin America’s history and culture; among these, the repository of books from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The second is the Colección Manuscritos, which gathers more than 2.000 documents dated between 1642 and 1952. Mainly, these texts include personal files of public figures of both national and international reach, such as Andrés Bello, Manuel Montt, Ignacio Domeyko and Rodolfo Philippi, among others. This repository is followed by the Colección Neruda, holding an important number of books, seashells, magazines and records gathered by poet Pablo Neruda, which he decided to bestow upon Universidad de Chile in 1954. On the other hand, the valuable Colección Archivo Fotográfico contains negatives from the exhibition “Rostro de Chile” presented in 1960. There is also the Fondo Justicia Espada Acuña Mena, which gathers 287 pieces, including designs, documents, photographs and other personal documents belonging to the first Chilean woman civil engineer. We also guard the Colección Lira Popular, incorporated into the registry of UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme. The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), belonging to the Facultad de Artes, was founded in 1947 with the purpose of preserving and communicating the work of artists, as well as presenting current cultural expressions. With two buildings, MAC 12 universidad de chile