Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen's "Tejiendo la Memoria" radio programs

Founded in 1992 by journalist and Radio Venceremos co-founder Carlos Henriquez Consalvi (“Santiago”), the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI) began as a collection of documentation and artifacts surrounding Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) guerrilla fighters in the Salvadoran Civil War, but expanded to collect and preserve cultural patrimony related to indigenous and women’s rights; artistic, literary, and historical figures in El Salvador; and audiovisual materials related to the identity and history of El Salvador. In 1996, the Museum created the campaign “Contra el caos de la desmemoria (Against the Chaos of Forgetting),” an ongoing community-based collection development campaign inviting individuals to loan, donate, or exhibit materials of cultural, historical and/or artistic significance.[1]

“Tejiendo la Memoria” is a weekly radio program produced by the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen in San Salvador, El Salvador, as part of its mission to “[c]ontribute to the educational and cultural development of the country through the conservation and distribution of El Salvador’s national heritage, and to create spaces of reflection on societal problems” [our translation].[2] Each short program of "Tejiendo la Memoria" presents excerpted interviews, audio files, and information on various aspects of Salvadoran culture, history, and art while highlighting archival documents, artifacts, and audiovisual materials currently housed in the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen’s collections. Topics covered within the programs include: personal testimonies from survivors and guerrilla fighters during El Salvador’s Civil War; biographies of writers, artists, and political figures; environmental issues, indigenous rights and culture, and spotlights on the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen ’s games and publications.

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