(prensa.com) After years of being in ruins, the building known as the Old City Hall underwent a rehabilitation process that allowed it to be reopened as a museum.
The La Chorrera have a museum is an idea born in 2001 the university teacher Arturo Guzman, who since 1976 has been dedicated to compiling information about the district.
The old families residing in La Chorrera retain many objects and documents that are willing to donate, but still can not be exposed, because the newly opened museum does not have adequate and sufficient furniture for display.
Private Collection
Part of the exhibits were donated to the museum by Oriel Zamora, a collector of antiques.
However, the display at the museum of La Chorrera is not even a tenth of the objects that Zamora has gathered throughout his life.
As Professor Guzman, Zamora was always convinced that La Chorrera one day would include a museum, just in the old town hall.
Some of the items donated to the museum have been with for 40 years this collector chorrerano.
Part of the story
Standing in front of a piece of wood at the bottom which reads “wood portion of the columns of the Hotel San Francisco in the old Calle Real”, the historian Rogelio Mendez Zuniga remembers exactly this building.
When the structure entirely of wood, was still standing, was begun the fight to be restored and converted into a museum, but the economic interests prevailed.
According to Zúñiga, 90% of the structures with some historical value, like the furniture they had, is lost in the district.
The only thing that survived is precisely the old city hall, where important events took place in the history of the district.
In the grounds of the structure, but by the year 1950, for example, the people gathered to prevent his deportation the then Mayor Prudencio Ayala.
A look at the museum
The museum houses a variety of fragments of pottery vessels prehispanic paperback, which were found in a rock shelter in the slums San Nicolas and Final Revolution, and axes and basalt prehispanic tips found on the banks of the river Perequetecito in Llano Largo, township Leone Beach.
As for written documents is a copy of the geographical relationship of the Bishop of Panama, Fray Pedro Morcillo Rubio (1736), which are some features of the town of La Chorrera and were drawn from the Archivo General de Indias, and parts clay, pre-Columbian origin, found in different parts of the district, just near rivers like the Perequete.
Draws attention to some pictures. In one of them shows the rescue of victims of bus routes from La Chorrera, Panama, which had come down from the Bridge of the Americas, which occurred in 1971.
Need for investment
Javier Herrera, Mayor of La Chorrera, invited families to donate to a museum objects with historical value.
Herrera explained that the rehabilitation of the building represented an investment of $ 100 000. Of this amount, the Ministry of Economy and Finance provided $ 60 000, while staff costs were borne by the municipality.