Host the next jangueo at Centro! Explore our archives, exhibitions, and more with your students, collective, and co-workers. Tours are a fantastic way to meet our team and explore specific topics that interest you and your group.
CENTRO Library & Archives is a treasured place where researchers, academics, teachers, students, genealogists, filmmakers, and the community at large find primary (historical documents) and secondary sources about the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Visitors can gain access to books, photographs, documents, artifacts, art, maps, oral histories, moving image and audio clips, and digitized or born digital material pertaining to stateside Puerto Ricans via our Library Catalog, Archival Database, and Digital Collections. The CENTRO Library & Archives often hosts workshops, seminars, and group visits.
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
Exhibition Visits
CENTRO Gallery employs curatorial frameworks that interweave the knowledge and content housed within the Library and Archives, contemporary research within Puerto Rican Studies, and the artistic production of Puerto Rican artists across generations and disciplines. Located at the heart of El Barrio, the gallery aims to foster dialogue between community members and artists across the various Puerto Rican Diaspora enclaves. Groups are more than welcome to schedule visits & tours to current exhibitions on view.
The Education Unit develops curricula, educational programming, events, exhibitions, and a variety of educational materials and resources highlighting primary resource materials and publications on the Puerto Rican Diaspora in the CENTRO Library & Archives. We engage the community through events that include teacher professional development training and student and educator workshops, film screenings, and exhibitions.
Each year, CENTRO hosts several in person, hybrid, and virtual events ranging from Library & Archives Lunch Hours, academic symposiums, celebrations and more! Our events are the perfect place to expand your network, deepen your knowledge, interrogate the field of Puerto Rican studies, and explore many of CENTRO’s free resources! Bring yourself or a group, we’d love to have you!