SECTION ONE:
A HISTORY OF CENTURIES

More than one hundred years of heartless dictators, injustices and generalized poverty provide the backdrop to the democratic awakening of Central America. 1

The inheritance of an unjust past has been aggravated by the tragic actions of the tyrant, combining to produce external debt, social insensitivity, economic destruction, corruption and many other evils within our societies. 1

The museum will recover this historical background and the underlying causes behind the rise of guerrilla involvement and the conflicts which contributed to a loss of peace to the Central American region. This should serve as an example for both present and future, as a warning and a cause for reflection.

Exhibit Components

  1. Introductory panel

  2. Six informative units composed of a photographic mural, a computer terminal with C.D. and a Secret Sound system. Each of these six units will cover a theme related to a particular historical element: dictatorships, poverty, militaries, corruption, etc.

  3. A visual display composed of photographic murals and of both real and symbolic objects will illustrate the state of Central America between 1850 and 1950.

  4. An interactive station made up of a computer with CD ROM and Touch Screen in order to expand upon previously covered themes, thus establishing a dialogue between the computer and the user.

1. Dr. Oscar Arias Sánchez, December 11, 1987.

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