Inedited Pacific: A vision on America about the middle of the XIX Century.

Published for "Inedited Pacific, a vision on America about the middle of the XIX century" exposition, organized by the Residence for Researchers and the National Natural Sciences Museum, held on March 23rd to April 12th, at the Residence for Researchers Auditorium.

The exhibition is a result of an intensive work NNSM has been doing along this last years on documentary and graphic recuperation, thus recuperating documents belonged to the Pacific Scientific Commission (1862-1866), the last romantic expedition to the New World according to Dr. Miguel Angel Puig-Samper and one of the main acquisitions made by NNSM.

The images allow us to approach that reality, and to know what America was in the 1860s; images that were one of the most remarkable results of an intensive work carried out by de Pacific Scientific Commission. The expedition is embodied in that illuminist spirit which made great universal scientific knowledge possible from the XVIII century on, through different voyages and works made by Spaniards in several fields.

Despite the fact that the Commission scientists suffered multiple drawbacks, the result was highly positive.

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