Abstract
Offers a vision of the institutions of Uruguay which aim to compile and preserve the audiovisuals that constitute the heritage of the country. The work focuses on the collection and the preservation showing how they work, which are the difficulties and which the advantages. Excellent institutions in this area are considered, standing out by their national reach, such as the ‘Archivo Nacional de la Imagen’ (National Image Archive) and the ‘Museo de la Palabra’ (Word Museum), whose commitment is to compile and conserve still and moving images in the first case, and voice in the second case. The Special Collections Section of the National Library and the Montevideo Photographic Archive are also included.
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