The Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (Spanish: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, IHNCA) is a research institute that is connected to the Central American University in Nicaragua.
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The institute is settled at the campus of the university in Managua. The building has several halls and rooms for lectures, research, documentation, and expositions.[1]
The IHNCA originates out of a merger in 1997 of the Library of the Central-American Historical Institute (Biblioteca del Instituto Histórico Centroamericano) and the Institute of History of Nicaragua (Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua). These institutes were founded in 1934 and 1987 respectively.[1]
The institute is dedicated to the research, spread of knowledge on history, and the administration of historical heritage.[1] It has executed thorough research and looks after an archive of more than 50,000 books, many papers, audio recordings, films, video's, maps and collections of paintings, masks and other artifacts[2]
In 2009, the institute received one of the Prince Claus Awards from the Netherlands.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c IHNCA, El instituto Archived 2011-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Prins Claus Fund (2009) description Archived 2013-04-15 at archive.today
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