Fonoteca Nacional is the institution in charge of conservation and preservation of the sound memory of Mexico. Since 2008, it has distinguished itself by the application and implementation of conservation, documentation and technological processes for the safeguarding of sound documents with the aim of preserving both analogue supports and digital audio archives in order to promote the culture of listening.
The Fonoteca has a preservation facility built on the basis of international standards and recommendations, as well as direct collaboration with IASA for the preservation of these materials. The facility was designed on three levels to allow for the preservation, cataloguing and digitisation of the sound collections and holdings. The two preservation vaults, José Antonio Alcaraz on the first floor and Carlos Jiménez Mabarak on the ground floor, are adequately equipped for the storage of analogue media: wax cylinders, magnetic wires, piano rolls, open reel tapes, cassettes, DATs (digital audio tapes), records in different formats (78 rpm, 45 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm), and compact discs. Each vault has the capacity to store 650,000 media and is equipped with temperature and humidity control systems, as well as integral security, which provide all the technical specifications required for their preservation.
Limited to: 40 people in four groups of 10 people each. The first two groups will start the tour at 15:00 and the remaining groups at 16:00.