Database of photograhs

PREMEHCHI has a database of more than 1500 photographs collected through the descendants of Chinese immigrants who have preserved them for generations, field trips to communities with an important material legacy, and documentary evidence found in a variety of printed sources, thus attesting to the survival of these migrants in Costa Rica, their contributions to the Costa Rican identity and their social integration by means of different mechanisms. We exhibit only part of the database here.

National Network of Libraries (SINABI for its acronym in Spanish)

The exhibition “Stories of the Gold Mountain” presents a series of pieces based on primary sources found at the National Archive of Costa Rica and prepared to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Chinese presence in Costa Rica. This exhibition is the result of an arduous investigation by the Confucius Institute at University of Costa Rica.

The National Library, which safeguards and disseminates Costa Rican documentary heritage, presents this exhibition in recognition of the contribution of the Chinese community to the development of the country and joins the celebration of Costa Rica's cultural diversity.

Treasures of the Chinese Association Headquarters at Puntarenas

The headquarters of the Chinese Club, as it was known, is home to the Chinese Association at Puntarenas, the current name of that first group of members with the same occupation, nationality, and dialect. In the headquarters, the different boards of directors zealously safeguarded historical artifacts that silent attest to the degree of organization of the former Circle of Merchants of the Celestial Empire. Four categories of artifacts have been documented: those that denote the line of work of the members, those that show that they employed their first language to document their activities until well into the 20th century, those that their craftsmen created to remember their heritage, and those that brandished their purchasing power in the face of the Costa Rican society.