Opening To The Public
Rafael Correa, president since 2007, considering that Carondelet Palace and its agencies are Ecuadorian heritages, convert the presidential compound into a museum accessible to all who wish to visit it.
To this end, areas were organized to locate objects within their cultural contexts, to make them accessible to the world, which used several rooms and spaces within the palace.
To make this work, Maria del Carmen Molestina researcher, PhD in Archeology Museum and former director of the Central Bank of Ecuador, made the inventory and identified places to expose the gifts that President Correa received from their possession. Furthermore, the found objects and antique furniture from the Palace to put on cultural value and entering the exhibition gallery.
Under this system, is now the opportunity to give gifts to all his presidential value cultural, historical and / or ethnographic, as are all objects that represent and embody habits, traditions, ideologies and thoughts of different Ecuadoria ethnic groups.
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