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Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)

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Phone
  
+52 55 5133 9900

Founder
  
Lucas Alamán

Address
  
Av Eduardo Molina 113, Penitenciaría Ampliación, 15280 Venustiano Carranza, CDMX, Mexico

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday9AM–5PM

Similar
  
Palacio de Lecumberri, Archivo General de la Nación, Instituto Nacional de Antrop, Museo Nacional de Historia, Metro San Lázaro

Profiles


The Archivo General de la Nación (Spanish for "General Archive of the Nation"; abbreviated AGN) is charged by the Mexican state to "be the governing body of the national archives and the central consultative entity of the Federal Executive." The writer Edmundo O'Gorman was its general director from 1938 until 1952. It is considered the most important among its class in the Americas and one of the most important in the entire world.

Since 1980, the archives have been housed in the Palacio de Lecumberri in Mexico City, a former prison.

References

Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico) Wikipedia