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The Minister of Culture, Carlos Aguilar Navarro, participated in the opening of the travelling exhibition called "The Way to Independence" that tells about historic illustrations related to the Bicentennial of Panama's Independence of Spain and that can be seen at the Canal Museum of Panama.

The exhibition was supported by Dr. Marixa Lasso as an executive director of the Center for Historical, Anthropological and Cultural Research, and with the research and facilitation of "curatorias" and by Ana Elizabeth González as an executive director of the Museum, who also participated as a curator.

At the travelling exhibition "Way to Independence" that shows works by Panamanian illustrators Martanoemí Noriega, Maribel Mendoza, J'm Pierrre Barria, Gabriel Gómez, Denise Quintero, Jorvan D'Ordy, Alberto Weand Ortiz, Rubén Arauz and Alcides Hunt whose jobs were selected by the qualifying board.

On the sample, the Minister of Culture, Carlos Aguilar Navarro emphasized that the youth had been told about events that had been occurring in the colonial period and they had been interpreted as the result of this work.

The exhibition of these works will be at the museum until 1 March and will then start a tour of the provinces and communities so that every Panamanian have an opportunity to appreciate the works that have been about some of our history since the isthma was under the Spanish crown.

Marixa Lasso, Executive Director of CIHAC AIP stated that "one of the most beautiful things about this project has been collaboration between several institutions and several disciplines."

He valued that as there were no images of events that occurred 200 years ago, something new was made, that was "establishing a dialogue between historians and illustrators about what happened at that time and from those conversations between different knowledge came up the images that help us to visualise the moments of independence shown here."

The national director of the Museum of the Ministry of Culture, Anayansi Chichaca, explained that the "exhibition reaffirms that the cooperation of different Panamanian institutions has fascinating results" as it was achieved "to combine scientific research, art and technology to create a sample of the main historic events of our independence."

Meanwhile, Ana Elizabeth González, executive director of the Canal Museum detailed that the "curatorial concept of" The Way to Independence "aims to illustrate the history of

our independence from Spain through an exciting collaboration with 9 digital artists, who were selected after a call to represent with their creativity and talent events 200 years ago. "

He added that this "curatorias looks for a dialogue between history and illustration, celebrating the two-hundredth with production of these nine cartoons that carry the audience to connect with the past and to know their history."