Museum de Herrera

Located in Chitre. Her­rera Province, this seven-room museum provides an excellent understand­ing of the life of the people living and working in Panama's interior. The archaeological exhibit has an important sample of the pre-Hispanic period, the first mammals, and the contact period between the Spanish and the na­tives. Also exhibited arc time period pollen pieces and works made in bone, shells, and wood. The ethnographic exhibit contains musical instruments and pictures that show the folkloric traditions and customs of the region. A funer­al hall houses a replica of the burial of the Cacique Parita. The museum also houses an extensive documented collection that is available to visitors, to­gether with the ethnography and Herrera room displays of decrees and reso­lutions relating to the establishment of Herrera Province in 1855. Another exhibit is dedicated to the history and people of Chitre, the provincial capital.