Hosted by the ASAPP, The IFLA AMERICAS 18 National Associations member Delegates, will gather to further organizational business, the action plan, thematic workshops.

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The Council will take place in Oficina del Casco Antiguo, in the Mansión Obarrio.

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Mansión Obarrio

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It is known that this is not the original batch of the Mansion Obarrio, since, according to the mapping of 1749 the site had a regular parcelling physiognomy, different from the one presented in 1779 and 1850, considering that the site remained built during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

 

For early twentieth century, the site was partially vacant, according to the mapping of 1904. The oldest known owner is Nicanor Arturo de Obarrio, who was a member of the Revolutionary Council and leader of the independence movement of 1903, who buys Juan Gonzalez Rucabado that home, according to 1903 deed of sale.

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Later in Public Registry inscription of 1914, Nicanor Arturo de Obarrio, notes that he has demolished the existing house, building a new one, of two stories, of masonry and zinc roof, same that the one that still stands today. Today the house is owned by the National Institute of Culture by gratuitously transfer, did, by the Ministry of Finance and Treasury, that was restored and installed there the Museum of Religious Art Colonial, according transfer deed 1980. The Obarrio Mansion structures were rehabilitated for the first promotion of Panama workshop (AECID-OCA) school. Since 2005 the interior was designed and built for the Office of the Old Town (Oficina del Casco Antiguo). The work was inaugurated in 2006 and has rooms for training and cultural activities.

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Oficina del Casco Antiguo (Office of the Old Town)

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The Office for the Restoration and valorization of the Historical Monumental Complex of Old Town Panama City (OCA) was created by the National Government in 2000, in order to promote initiatives of rehabilitation, restoration, conservation and valorization of the Historical Center, which had been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997.

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The OCA is integrated by the Ministry of the Presidency, the Ministry of Housing and Land Management (MIVIOT), the City of Panama, the Panama Tourism Authority (ATP) and the National Institute of Culture (INAC).

 

MISSION 

Develop, implement and monitor strategies to preserve, protect and promote the heritage of the Historic Center of the City of Panama, through a model of comprehensive and innovative management, based on a network of public and private, national and international actors.

 

VISION

A preserved Historic Downtown Panama City, retaining its core values and its outstanding universal value, with the perspective of social inclusion, sustainable human development and rising levels of democratic governance.