The purpose of the exhibition “Woods that speak Guarani” is to socialize knowledge regarding the belonging of the current national territory to a wider region that exceeds our borders and those of the other national states (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) because it obeys another type of territory, that of cultural behaviors and traditions, where the immaterial and material remnants of which the imagery is only a part, ignore the current political borders and have collaborated in the formation of local identities much more than they are recognized.

The exhibition is composed of material objects from the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay:
Images and other religious objects that are scattered throughout our territory and is one of the products of the survey of material elements linked to the indigenous missionary reality, made at the national level during the years 2006 and 2007.

The exhibited pieces were selected from a larger number of surveyed pieces and come from different places of the national territory.
They have been chosen taking into account their patrimonial, testimonial and documentary value.

2. Archaeological materials from the extinct missionary town “San Francisco de Borja del Yí” (1833-1862), recovered within the framework of the project “Missionary Archaeology in our territory: Santa Rosa del Cuareim and San Borja del Yí and other towns” CSIC-UdelaR, (1995-1999) in charge of the archaeologist Carmen Curbelo and that has a testimonial and documentary value that allows us to perceive the incidence of the Jesuit missionary system and of the indigenous missionaries in the social processes that occurred in our territory, since the XVII century.