About Presley Norton Museum
The Presley Norton Museum is an exhibition hall in Guayaquil, Ecuador which houses a gathering of archeological curios, including earthenware and dolls made by the first pilgrims of Ecuador. It every so often as film screenings and live music. The gallery has around 8,000 antiques, some dating as far back as 3000 B.C. The exhibition hall is in the Villa Rosa Herlinda house, once possessed by Ismael Perez Pazmino, the organizer of El Universo daily paper. The historical center is named out of appreciation for the Ecuadorian paleontologist Presley Norton Yoder 1932-1993.
The historical center is situated at the house that used to have a place with columnist Ismael Perez Pazmino, the originator of El Universo daily paper, who named the manor as Rosa Herlinda, to pay tribute to his significant other. The plan and development of the Museum have a place with Spanish planner Joaquin Perez in de Cardona. It was worked in the vicinity of 1936 and 1940 and introduced in 1941. Toward the finish of 1970, the manor was claimed by a few money-related foundations until the point when 1978 when it was changed into the archeological exhibition hall of the Pacific Bank, which obtained 8.000 social pieces that year.
In 2003 the Central Bank assumed the responsibility of the historical center beginning a rebuilding procedure that transformed it into a museographic and social focus. The Museum expects to strengthen the institutional social legacy of the city through accumulations from the native and present day times. As a reciprocal assignment, the Museum additionally offers exhaustive projects that incorporate displays, meetings, discussions, film projections, performing expressions, an assembly hall for 400 individuals and an esplanade for outside exercises so as to advance the social legacy at the administration of the nation.
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