Del océano al verso. Las caracolas de Pablo Neruda

June 20, 1954 Under the rectorate of Juan Gómez Millas, Pablo Neruda gave his personal library and first collection to Universidad de Chile, an official amount of 5.107 books, 8.400 shells, 155 records y 263 magazines. 1955-1956 The Neruda Room is designed and built in the Biblioteca Central building of Universidad de Chile’s Casa Central with the aim of safeguarding, investigating, exhibiting and making available the Neruda Collection. The architect Fernando de la Cruz was called to direct the construction of this space and investigator Jorge Sanhueza (1924-1967) was charged with the cataloguing and conservation of the books in the collection. 1979 The academic and anthropologist Grete Mostny (1914-1991), who back then worked as a conservator in the Museo de Historia Natural, coordinated the exhibition Moluscos Bioarte , and asked Universidad de Chile’s Biblioteca Central for some specimens. 1981-1985 Naturalist María Codoceo Rojas (1909-1998) carried out the first scientific cataloguing of the Neruda Collection Malacological Section. The catalogue was published in 1987. September 24 - 29, 1990 A selection of shells and books from the collection is exhibited in The Sala Desiderio Papp, inside Universidad de Chile's Biblioteca Central. 1991 Banco Estado acquired half the personal collection of the lawyer Hernán Bravo, who for many years gathered letters and books by Pablo Neruda. This collection was lent to Universidad de Chile and is known as "Colección Banco Estado". History of the Neruda Collection, Malacological Section 160 universidad de chile