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In 1950, a group of young professors and students got together, with the purpose of creating an institution that would help spread “cultured” music but from the beginning, due to the more general concerns its organizers had, it exceeded that initial purpose as not only musicians attended the gatherings, but also creators of other artistic manifestations. This is how the Nuestro Tiempo Cultural Society was born, whose inaugural act was held on March 10, 1951 and was chaired by the composer Harold Gramatges.

Sociedad de Estudios Afrocubanos

SOCIETY OF CLINICAL STUDIES OF HAVANA

In the middle of the year 1879, Doctor Serafín Gallardo Alcalde met some doctors to tell them his idea of creating a group committed to the clinical study of the morbid manifestations. Its members should be dedicated to the improvements of the medical and surgical knowledge. They also had to spread their research results in the interest of the profession. The regulations for the organization, which was accepted by the government on July 3rd, were approved after several meetings on June 29th of the same year. On August 31st the doctors Serafín Gallardo Alcalde, Antonio Mestre Domínguez and Federico Horstmann Cantos were elected to be the president and vice- presidents respectively. The opening ceremony of the Society of Clinical Studies of Havana was held at the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences, Physics and Natural Sciences on October 11th, 1879.

Sociedad de Folklore

Sociedad de Folklore cubano

Sociedad Económica Amigos del País

Cuban Speleologists Society

It was created by the Doctor Antonio Núñez Jiménez on January 15th, 1940. His goal was to study everything related to the subterranean world in the different manifestations, as well as the context and the people who lived or live interrelated in these areas. At the beginning, the members of this Society were devoted to make expeditions and studies in places near the capital of the country. Later on they started to widen the area of operations of their explorations.

American Ethnological Society

Albert Gallatin and John Russell Bartlett founded the American Ethnological Society (AES) in New York in 1842. Its aim was to promote research in ethnology and all research relating to human beings. The first meetings of the AES were held in members' homes, where they discussed all aspects of human life, from history and geography to philology and anthropology. The AES was an academic institution, where papers were presented and then published.

Sociedad Geográfica de Cuba

Sociedad Hispano-Cubana de Cultura

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