The exhibition: The Books of the Liberator San Martàn was inaugurated at the BNP
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- 26 Aug 2022
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The Minister of Culture, Betssy Chavez, participated in the opening ceremony of the exhibition "The books of the liberator San Martín in the National Library of Peru (BNP)", which took place in the Hall of the Great Library Public of Lima.
The event was held within the framework of the 201 years of institutional creation of the Library, and was attended by the institutional head of the BNP, Fabiola Vergara, and the Argentine ambassador, Enrique Vaca-Narvaj.
“From the Ministry of Culture we are aware that we will only access critical and reflective thinking as a population, through the habit of reading that, from the school and from information centers such as libraries, should be promoted,” said the minister.
The head of Culture, said that work is being done to promote and strengthen the National Library and the work of public libraries, valuable institutions for the construction of citizenship.
The books that have been exhibited are 12 of the 74 that the Liberator's collection has, which are part of the cultural legacy that General Don José de San Martín left to Peru.
In addition, this exhibition reveals the political and academic training of the liberator and the influence they exerted on the libertarian thought of various political leaders who led the independence movement in South America against Spanish rule.
The relevance of these bibliographical units lies both in their materiality and in their status as recovered heritage. Don José de San Martín had among the points of his ideology that "access to knowledge would strengthen the independence thinking of the American peoples." Read More…
