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The UNC Historical Museum is located in the building that originally housed the Colegio Máximo de la Compañía de Jesús and where, from 1613, the University of Córdoba, the oldest in Argentina, was established.
The Museum was created in 1999 within the framework of the declaration of UNESCO World Heritage of the site "Manzana y Estancias Jesuíticas de Córdoba". Although the building maintains its original typological and spatial characteristics, it was renovated over the centuries. The last intervention moved rectoral offices and classrooms to create the museum.
Jesuitical Collection
It is a collection of old books conformed by the order of the Society of Jesus during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is the first library of the University. It belongs to the UNC Library and is exhibited in the UNC Historical Museum.
It contains examples from different disciplines of knowledge such as Physics, Medicine, Algebra, Geometry, Botany, Zoology, Geography, History, Philosophy, Linguistics and Theology, among others. Most of these books were brought from Europe, because in Córdoba it was not possible to print. There were also editions from Peru.
The Jesuit Collection is open to the public for research and the books can be consulted. In recent years, a digitization process was carried out that covered 500 copies. This Collection has been incorporated into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hall of Degrees
During the Jesuit period, this space constituted the Chapel of the Spaniards, located next to the central nave of the Church. In the middle of the 19th century, the University transformed the old chapel into the Degrees Hall and here the thesis defenses began to take place.
It has a European style, with damask silks on the walls, boiseries and chandeliers. The paintings of the vault show interventions of different periods. The oldest painting is formed by the two shields located at the ends. In the center, an allegory of the muses that bear the university shield appears.
Collection of cartography, engravings and books (XVI - SXX centuries)
This collection, donated by the Juri family, presents the thematic axis of American cartography, produced from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, by authors from multiple origins.
Each period is complemented by a material that characterizes the different historical contexts of this production: documents, letters, engravings, articles, books and, since the 19th century, photographs and postcards.
Cartography is presented as a reflection of the set of notions that are transmitted through the educational system and that feel as part of a collective cultural heritage.
