The first inscriptions on the
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...
Memory of the World International Register were made in 1997.
By creating a compendium of the world’s documentary heritage—manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archive holdings
– the program aims to tap on its networks of experts to exchange information and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials.
As of 2018, 432
documentary heritages have been included in the Register, among them recordings of folk music, ancient languages and phonetics, aged remnants of religious and secular manuscripts, collective lifetime works of renowned giants of literature, science and music, copies of landmark motion pictures and short films, and accounts documenting changes in the world’s political, economic and social stage. Of these, 93 properties were nominated by countries from the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
List by country/territory
Notes
A. Names and spellings provided are based on the official list released by the Memory of the World Programme.
References
External links
UNESCO Memory of the World Programme official websiteMemory of the World Register – Latin America and the CaribbeanLista completa de documentos registradosArquivo Rui Barbosa
Arquivo Nacional - access to the full Brazilian's listiPatrimônio - another way to access the 2020 Brazilian's list
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Latin America and the Caribbean