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Museum for the National Identity (MIN) of Honduras is a museum devoted to the acquisition, investigation, conservation and divulging of historical material of the humans that have populated the territory of Honduras. Administered by the Honduran Foundation for the National Identity, the MIN is situated in the city of Tegucigalpa,M.D.C. In the ancient Palace of the Ministries, a building built in the 19th century, during the presidential administration of Tiburcio Carías Andean, declared national monument by the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History is one of the most visited museums of the city has rooms very interesting for example, the room of Copán virtual, explains the history of the gods and his kings, also find other rooms, where can appreciate the busts of the próceres Honduran.
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History
Museum for the National Identity was inaugurated in 2006. It is a permanent institution opened to the public, without ends of lucre to the service of the society and his development, that purchases, preserve, investigates, communicates and exhibits with purpose of study, of education and enjoy, the material and immaterial evidence of the pobladores that inhabited and inhabit the Honduran territory to end to strengthen the historical memory and the sense of national identity.
As the Institute of Anthropology and History of Honduras the Building that houses to the Museum for the National Identity situates in the category “M” relative classification to monuments of big historical value, architectural and paisajista.
The Museum for the Identity known previously like “Palace of the Ministries” dates of the year 1880, being president of the republic the Doctor Marco Aurelio Soto, the one who planted the first stone of the building.
By means of the Decree No. 11 of 30 October 1880 (official Gazette 15 November of the same year) effected the definite transfer of the capital, of the antañona and colonial city of Comayagua to the city of Tegucigalpa. The government effected shopping of terrains to raise real estates and situate state offices between these the one who would occupy the ancient General Hospital. It is as well as it arises this building like the first General Hospital of Tegucigalpa; being in May 1926 moved to the place known like “Saint Felipe”.
The construction had an alone level, that later, in 1933 under the administration of the Doctor and General Tiburcio Carias Andean added him a second level as we can appreciate it at present. When concluding the work, a lot of offices of the government are installed here, knowing by short time with the name of “National Palace”, and later like “Palace of the Ministries”
Room 1, «Geologycal formation of Honduras»
Room 2, «A geography complicated and difficult»
Room 3, «historical Training of a nation»
Room 4, «Honduras are you»
- Mesoamérica (North).
- The Zone chibcha (south).
- The Sea Caribbean (this).
- Palestinian immigrants.
- Chinese immigrants.
- Jewish immigrants.
- Inmigantes Europeans.