Collection of Francisco Prat Puig’s Documents, Objects Donated to Cultural Center

The valuable items that Francisco Prat Puig’s daughters have donated to the Cultural Center named after him have made headlines in Santiago de Cuba. The donation includes a broad collection with texts that date back from 1930, 1943, pictures, books of Archaeology, History of Art, Geography and different subjects, as well as native and colonial archaeological evidences collected by Prat Puig during his research career.

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The students that are in their second year of Archaeology at the Hugo Luisi Restoration Workshop School join the classification work that is being presently carried out. They are as curious as their professors and want to discover, among those writings, important events in the life and work of the initiator of restoration in Santiago de Cuba.

Along with specialists from the Archaeology Department of the City’s Curator Office and Francisco Prat Puig Cultural Center, they catalog each of the samples depending on their type and period, while they corroborate theory in the practice.

Gisela Coronel Moreno, a museologist from the Cultural Center that looks after the work and knowledge piled up by the researcher, announced that "most of the collection is made up of documents, which have open new doors to learn more about professor Prat’s work, not only in our country, but in Catalonia".

Coronel Moreno added that there are other documents related to the planning of his lessons, and many publications linked to the Eastern University (1930).

The archaeological evidences include samples from the native and colonial ages. There are pieces of ceramics, cut stones, metal and glass, the Archaeology technician Gonzalo Infante Reyes said.

With the ceramic pieces the students will have the opportunity to see zoomorphic and anthropomorphic handles in vessels used by the indigenous.

Among the cut stones there are mullers, polishers, drills, burins; as well as shell-made tools, Infante Reyes pointed out.

According to the specialists, the new donation will be included in Francisco Prat Puig Cultural Center’s collection, which counts over 470 pieces of universal art from four continents, which were discovered by the illustrious Catalan that became a man of Santiago.