Panama Archives and Libraries

Archives
National Archives of Panama Calidonia Panama City Website: Website


 * The National Archives of Panama contains court records, notary records for all provinces of Panama, a digital collection of all bills that have been passed since 1934 (bills passed between 1903-1934 are too fragile to digitize), land records, etc.

Records of the Panama Canal Website Guides to Federal Records U.S. National Archives
 * These records are part of the United States National Archives Federal Records from 1848 to 1984.

Central American Archives 4th Avenue, 7th and 8th Streets, Zone 1 Guatemala City, Guatemala
 * This History of the General Archive of Central America located in Guatemala gives more detail on the types of records held.
 * CRL (Center for Research Libraries) Acquires Central American Archives
 * Finding Aid
 * Costa Rica Catalogue Search
 * Accessing the CRL Collections Information on borrowing records
 * "The Archivo General de Centroamérica (Central American Archives) 1544-1821, in Guatemala, is the most comprehensive collection found anywhere in the world of historical records spanning the period of Spanish rule in the Americas. The holdings of the Archivo include myriad types of documents covering a host of cultural, legislative, judicial, fiscal, economic, religious, military, agricultural and commercial matters pertaining to the Kingdom of Guatemala, an area which, from the time of the Conquest in 1544 through 1821, embraced modern-day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Mexican State of Chiapas."

Libraries
The National Library of Panama Ernesto J. Castillero R. National Library Omar Recreational Park Avenida Belisario Porras "Vía Porras" Corregimiento de San Francisco, City of Panama Telephone: (507) 221 8360 Website

Museums
Afro-Antillean Museum of Panama (Museo Afro-Antillano de Panama) Calle 24 y Avenida Justo Arosemena Calidonia Panama City Telephone: (507) 501-4130/501-4131 Email: [mailto:info@samaap.org info@samaap.org] Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afroantillano de Panamá - Samaap
 * The popular Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum may showcase the history, politics and influence of French and American workers who helped construct the Panama Canal, but the Afro-Antillean Museum is the place for travelers who want to learn more about the impact the nation’s West Indian community had on developing the infrastructure that still keeps this Central America destination up and running.

Museum of Old Panama Vía Cincuentenario Lefevre Park Panama City Telephone: (507) 226-8915/226-9364/226-1757 Email: [mailto:patronato@panamaviejo.org patronato@panamaviejo.org]
 * The museum shows us the history and life of Panama from before the arrival of the Spaniards to colonize the Panamanian lands, until the destruction of it by piracy. In the photo we can see a model of how Panama was the old city back then.

Panama Canal Museum George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida Gainesville Telephone: (800) 621-6044/(773) 955-4545 Email: [mailto:Special@uflib.ufl.edu Special@uflib.ufl.edu] Website
 * The Panama Canal Museum Collection includes more than 16,500 objects --photographs, artwork, newspapers, books and ephemera -- that document the history of the United States in Panama.

Panama Canal Museum Plaza de la Independencia Calle 5a Este San Felipe Panama City Telephone: (507) 211-1649/211-1650 Email: [mailto:info@museodelcanal.com info@museodelcanal.com] Website
 * The Panama Canal Museum is located in a beautifully restored building that was once the office space of the French Canal Company, the U.S. Isthmian Canal Commission offices and then, in 1912, the main Post Office. It is full of artifacts and information. The Interoceanic Canal Museum of Panama is a permanent, non-profit institution, at the service of society and its development, open to the public; that acquires, preserves, investigates, interprets, disseminates and exposes the testimonies of the history of Panama and its Canal, for education, knowledge and the delight of the public that visits it.

Panama History Museum Avenida 7 Central Municipal Palace San Felipe Panama City Telephone: (507) 501-4128/228--6231 Email: [mailto:museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa museodehistoria@inac.gob.pa] Website: Museum of History Website #2: History Museum of Panama Website #3: History Museum of Panama


 * The collections that make up the Museum of History of Panama, are grouped following the accrual of the History of the country, generally established by the common of the national historians and officialized in the textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education as follows: 1st Colonial Period, from 1501 to 1821. 2nd Departmental Period, from 1821 to 1903. 3rd Republican Period, from 1903 to the present. Having chosen the facts and monuments that have had the greatest impact on the life of the country in order that the visitor can get an idea of ​​the importance and the events summits of each historical period and the participation of the different human groups that make up the Panamanian nationality in them; including national and foreign ethnic minorities.

For a list of museums in Panama, go to List of museums in Panama in Wikipedia.