writes: Ulises Guevara
was a May 3, back in 1971, with a few ceramic items and fossils he had collected the priest Alfredo Bastos Noren, initiating the organization of the Museum to Jaén, in environments of Ex-Escuela Normal Mixta "Victor Andrés Belaunde" in parochial school classrooms.
interest to establish the museum, was the need for students of the emerging Joint Normal School "Victor Andrés Belaunde," they needed to prepare their lessons in history and geography, but there were some reference sheets, then said: "WE BUILD A MUSEUM FOR JAEN "youth of higher education are especially excited and Narcisa brothers Jose Mercedes Sánchez Saavedra, were the first to give away several samples of pottery they had in their homes belonged to the Chimu and Lambayeque cultures, with 15 ceramic samples and some forty fossil ammonites and oysters was giving way to one of the most beautiful and exciting tasks for the people of the Upper Maranon: The Museum as pillars of their identity.
By then the Bishop Antonio Hornedo Correa visited the brand new "Museum" appreciated it as a utopia, a dream of teenagers, just told us, you know what a museum and how to manage it?, keep quiet, it was crazy, but we had to persist with the support of the local community and neighboring towns, mainly Normal School students and secondary in 1974 Edgard Guevara high school students, Jhony Martínez and Hector Abarca, found in the East and the collapse of the Huaca San Isidro several samples of fine stone and ceramic Chavinoid traits, shows that reinforced the desire for a museum for ancient samples of Jaén this region.
recessive In 1975 the Normal School, the museum and library are relocated to NúcleoEducativo 01, which was located in the surroundings of Villanueva Alfonso Pinillos College, a small and dynamic museum suffered the first robbery took almost all samples, it increased our determination to continue with the Museum JAEN in 1980, the Museum is relocated the Technological Institute '4 June 1821 ", which had support and enthusiasm of its founding director, Professor Hermogenes Mejía Solf, who had won the national competition for Director and was a strong soldier support been forging a Museum, in 1985 the National Institute of Culture, who knows the rich heritage that kept growing and as invincible, decide By Directorial Resolution CREATE REGIONAL MUSEUM OF PUBLIC Technological Institute "4 June 1821."
In 1991, 25 May, after a long illness, died Solf Professor Hermogenes Mejía, teachers, students and neighbors request that their name is perpetuated in Jaen and manage the museum is named "MEJIA SOLF HERMOGENES REGIONAL MUSEUM" from that date until the present, the Museum has grown so much and so, and has received immense international prestige visits, thousands of children, youth and adults annually our showrooms, tens of Villagers have donated valuable samples just to mention: Mr. Fernan Perez Castillo, José M. Sánchez Saavedra, Walter Amado Chavez Lizarzaburu Germain, José Ignacio Adrianzén, Marco V. Gamonal, Melanio Garcia Neyra, Manuel and Montenegro Luzmila Soberón, Pastor Robin Sanchez, Mauricio Dávila Cubas and others to whom it is our deep appreciation.
have passed forty years, like it was yesterday, the museum continues to grow, is still struggling to consolidate the cultural identity of these lands is expected as always the quiet support of the people, because it is only he who makes its history, retains its past and into the future.
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