Students from the University of El Salvador at the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen

Students from the University of El Salvador (UES)  photographed the exhibition “Memórias del T-zumpul”  [Memories of T-zumpul] during their visit to the  Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen [Museum of the Word and Image, MUPI] in the morning of September 23.

The exhibition commemorates the more than 600 civilian victims of the massacre perpetrated in Las Aradas, Chalatenango, on May 14, 1980.

Historical memory, community resistance, and the design of the Las Aradas Memorial are explored through architectural drawings, models, ceramics, paintings, embroidery, videos, and survivors’ archives.

The Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador research initiative is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Western University, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund.