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Puerto Rico Institute of Puerto Rican Culture Medals

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Commemorative series medals from the "Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña", Institute of Puerto Rican Culture founded in 1955 by Dr. Ricardo E. Alegria. These medals were produced by Medallic Art Company, 1957 - 2011. The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture or ICP, for short, is an institution of the Government of Puerto Rico responsible for the establishment of the cultural policies required in order to study, preserve, promote, enrich, and diffuse the cultural values of Puerto Rico. Since October 1992, its headquarters have been located at the site of the old colonial Spanish Welfare House in Old San Juan. The ICP was created by order of Law Number 89, signed June 21, 1955, and it started operating in November of that year. Its first Executive Director was Dr. Ricardo E. Alegria. In general terms, the organizational structure of the Institute responds to the functions assigned to it by Law. Various programs address to the following aspects of the Puerto Rican culture: promote the arts, archeology, museums, parks, monuments, historic zones, music, teather, dance, and the Archives and the National Library of Puerto Rico. It extends its promotion of these throughout all the municipalities of Puerto Rico through local Cultural Centers. These Cultural Centers are autonomous organizations. The Institute manages the Puerto Rico General Archive as well as the Puerto Rico National Library, has a program on Puerto Rican arquelogy, sponsors programs in the visual arts, the popular arts and handcrafts, the theatrical arts, and the musical arts, has a branch that publishes books and periodicals, manages a number of museums and parks, and has restored many historic buildings throughout Puerto Rico as part of its historic zones and monuments program. Many of these buildings have been turned into museums. As an example, as part of a project of restoration of the Ponce Historic Zone, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture assembled a 13-member team to research and survey what changes would need to be implemented for the restoration as that zone. In the words of the prominent Puerto Rican anthropologist Dr. Ricardo E. Alegria, "There was a need to counteract decades of harmful influences, which at times were openly contradictory to our cultural values, with an effort to promote those values. There was an urgent need to struggle against a psychological conditioning which had become deeply rooted in our colonial society, and which led many Puerto Ricans to systematically diminish anything autochthonous or anything that seemed autochthonous, while disproportionately valuing everything that was foreign, or that seemed foreign." It was in this social and sociological environment that the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture was born. The bill provoked fierce debate as, for some whose political views where in favor of the direction Puerto Rican politics had been taking in the several years prior to the debate, the bill touched on the very essence of the political status of Puerto Rico. Once the bill was signed into law, the controversy created by the new government institution did not end.

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35 items (showing items 1–20)

	Juan Morel Campos 100th Anniversary 1857-1957. MACO, 1957. Bronze. Diameter 50.92mm, 72.9 grams. Artist-obv / Francisco Vazquez Diaz "Compostela", rev / Ramon Gordils. Medal turn. Mintages : bronce-470, silver plated-20, gold plated-10
	Jose Celso Barbosa 100th Anniversary 1857-1957. MACO, 1958. Bronze. Diameter 50.91mm, 72.1 grams. Artist-obv / Francisco Vazquez Diaz "Compostela", rev / Ramon Gordils. Medal turn. Mintages : bronce-470, silver plated-20, gold plated-10
	Luis Muñoz Rivera 100th Aniversary 1859-1959. MACO, 1959. Bronze. Diameter 50.89mm, 68.5 grams. Artist-obv / Francisco Vazquez Diaz "Compostela", rev / Ramon Gordils. Medal turn. Mintages : bronce-970, silver plated-20, gold plated-10
	Juan Alejo Arizmendi Bicentennial 1760-1960. MACO, 1960. Gold plated. Diameter 50.90mm, 61.4 grams. Artist-Francisco Vazquez Diaz "Compostela". Medal turn. Mintages : bronce-470, silver plated-20, gold plated-10
	Juan Alejo Arizmendi Bicentennial 1760-1960. 1960. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Premio Nacional de Cultura / National Culture Award. 1960. Gold Filled 1/15 , 14K. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, "Por La Preservacion Y Enriquecimiento De Nuestra Cultura", artist-Lorenzo Homar. Medal turn. Provenance: Dr. Ricardo E. Alegria
	150th Anniversary of Cadiz, Spain Courts, Ramon Power Giralt . 1965. Silver plated, also in bronce. Medal turn. Provenance: Heriberto Soto
	150th Anniversary of Cadiz, Spain Courts, Ramon Power Giralt . 1965. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Jose De Diego 100th Anniversary 1866-1966. 1966. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Centenario Junta Informativa 1867-1967. 1967. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Centenario Del Grito De Lares 1868-1968, Ramon Emeterio Betances. 1968. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Cuarto Centenario San German 1570-1970. 1970. Bronze. Medal turn.
	100th Anniversary of the Slavery Abolition in Puerto Rico 1873-1973. 1973. White metal. Medal turn.
	100th Anniversary of the Slavery Abolition in Puerto Rico 1873-1973. 1973. Bronze. Medal turn.
	20th Anniversary of the Puerto Rican Culture Institute 1955-1975. 1975. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Centenario Ateneo Puertorriqueño 1876-1976. 1976. Bronze. Medal turn.
	100th Anniversary Luis Llorens Torres 1876-1976. 1977. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Milenario del Idioma Español. 1977. Bronze. Medal turn.
	Cuarto Centenario de San Blas de Illescas Coamo. 1979. Bronze. Medal turn.
	25th Anniversary of the Institute of Culture of P.R. . 1980. Silver. Medal turn. Provenance: Edoardo Grande