The Museums attached to the Culture Management Division, a dependency attached to the Vice-Rectory for Culture and Wellbeing of the Universidad del Cauca, had to temporarily close their doors to the public and the possibility of visiting them in a virtual way was considered.

Abiding by the provisions of the University Directorate and within the framework of Resolution R - 0207 of 2020 (by which preventive administrative measures are ordered against the threat of COVID 19), the Mosquera House Museum and the Natural History Museum, Like the memory spaces such as the Funding Father's Pantheon and the Francisco José de Caldas Auditorium, all administrative activities and guided visits were suspended.

According to the magister Francisco Valencia Castillo, head of the Culture Management Division, the officials will continue working from their homes because these spaces have internal processes that must be carried out, including the museum renovation on the first floor of the Museum of Natural History, which allows designing the new display cabinets, the info-graphics and educational texts and the application to the existing script.

Likewise, a process is underway for visitors to get to know the museums in a virtual way, guided by students from basic, secondary and university education institutions; In the Natural History Museum, they will learn about the inventory processes of the collections of the different species that it preserves in excellent condition.

In the Mosquera House Museum, the Historical Room is being created, which will be called: Between Bolívar and Mosquera; the historical script and the pieces that will be exhibited in the Museum, in graphic form, are also being created. In this space, the inventory and updating processes of the heritage pieces are also carried out.

The Pantheon of the Founding Fathers, which keeps the ashes of the Payanese people who participated in the founding of the Republic, will also be articulated with the curricula of the institutions of basic and secondary education. Around this process, the educational material alluding to heritage was organized, which will be sent through mass mailings, so that university students and citizens get to know heritage in a virtual way as a characteristic element between the memory and identity of Cauca and its capital. These materials are adjusted to the lines of public formation: Thursday of the Museum, Pieces of the Month and Heritage Routes.

"For this purpose, we will use the communication spaces created by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Culture and Well-being and the communication processes from the Communications Management Center," said Francisco Valencia Castillo, head of the Division of Culture Management at the University of Cauca.

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