The exhibition Homagno: Pervivencia de José Martí was inaugurated on Monday at the Eusebio Leal Spengler House of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana (OHCH), on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of José Martí's birth (January 28, 2023).

Radio Enciclopedia reports that in the Para No Olvidar Hall of this center, Ariel Gil Gomez, head of the entity, explained details of the exhibition and the building to a group of visitors, led by Dr. Honoris Causa in Letters, Miguel Barnet, and the Deputy Director of the OHCH, Perla Rosales, along with OHCH collaborators.

Gil Gómez, in the exhibition catalog, emphasized that "For Martí, the Homagno is the bearer of the human virtues of sacrifice, resilience, forgiveness, hope, love, intellect... in its broadest ontological concept.

The exhibition's central poster features an image of the equestrian statue of Jose Marti erected in Havana's Trece de Marzo Park, next to the monument dedicated to Generalissimo Maximo Gomez in 1935.

The sculpture of the National Hero is a faithful, exact and unique replica of the one in New York's Central Park, created by American artist Anna Haytt Huntington (1876-1973).

The exhibition displays photographs of the first public tribute to the Apostle on Cuban soil, which consisted of the installation, in 1899, of a tombstone on the façade of the Master's birthplace, a ceremony organized by Juan Gualberto Gómez and Fermín Valdés Domínguez, attended by his family, and the first monument dedicated to Martí in Cuba, in Central Park, unveiled on February 24, 1905.

It includes other photographs that show the efforts of Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring to rescue and disseminate Martí's legacy since the founding of the OHCH in 1938.

Among them is the reopening of one of the galleries of the Lombillo Palace, on December 22, 1947, where the Cuban Lyceum in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, where Martí deployed his revolutionary propaganda for the independence of Cuba, is reproduced in miniature.

Likewise, the visitor has the possibility of admiring images of the City Historian, Eusebio Leal Spengler, in visits to historical sites related to the hero in Tampa and Key West, Florida, in the United States, and the small painting, jealously guarded by Amelia, Martí's sister and ceded by her to the José Martí Museum in the Apostle's Birthplace, founded in 1925.

Sitting at his desk in his office at 120 Front Street, in New York, the Apostle posed for the Swedish painter Herman Norman. Snapshots of what is known by all as Martí's Little House; the sculpture The Master and His Disciple, by José Villa Soberón, in the inner courtyard of the Rafael María de Mendive School, and sessions of the Heritage Education workshop "Martí Child, Martí for Children", carried out by Opus Habana with fourth and fifth grade students of this school, are other images of the exhibition.

Also included in Homagno: Pervivencia de José Martí are photographs of the opening of that school, on September 3, 2018, by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, then President of the Councils of State and Ministers.

According to Radio Enciclopedia, that building was the residence of Mendive, Cuban writer and pedagogue, who was the director of the Escuela de Instrucción Primaria Superior de Varones since its creation in 1864 and founder of the Colegio San Pablo -located at Prado 266 (former 88). Martí moved to the latter in 1867, and lived with his teacher and family while he was in his third year (1868-1869).

As part of the exhibition, a showcase displays OHCH commemorative medals related to Martí's legacy: To the Heroes of July 26, 1953 (1973, gold), the first medal minted by Eusebio Leal Spengler; Sesquicentennial of José Martí's birth (2003, silver and patinated copper), and Antiguo Colegio de San Pablo, today Rafael María de Mendive Elementary School (2017, patinated copper).