The best museums Chile

Don't miss this new museum created in memory of mining activity. After closing the main deposits in the region, a group of former miners wanted to save coal activity in a cultural heritage. Thus was born this project an interactive museum, very informative, where the mining reoriented as guides. The circuit, which includes an underground gallery, replicates the real-scale experience of the working environment of minors.

This palace was built in 1906 by the architect Alfredo Azancot on the order of a wealthy Spanish banker, also leading the Chilean company of tobacco, Fernando Rioja. It is a palace built on stone; Its walls are built in oak wood and reinforced by Adobe, with a decoration of stuc and cement. This remains a French inspiration, with its semi-circular loggia and its two arms. The palace houses the Museum of the Environment and also hosts theater or lyrical performances.

The museum exhibits collections of different minerals (6 200 pieces) that will be of interest only to those who love these rocks. Let others wait for the museum of Copiapó.

The museum presents a very interesting collection of diaguitas objects (pottery in particular). Deserve a visit.

The structure in Adobe and tiles, which houses the museum since 1970, is representative of regional urban colonial architecture. Permanent collections make it possible to learn more about history (including the famous Battle of Rancagua), mines, agriculture and crafts in the region.

Angle of Estado and Cuevas. It was founded by the order of Notre-Dame de la Merced under the San Cruz Nonato convent of San Cruz de Triana. The building, which then housed a hospice, was restored three times between 1877 and 1889. You will notice the decoration of the nave in a Renaissance style by the architect Don Ignacio Cremonesi. In 1814, the church was defended by General O'Higgins against the royalist assailants. Classified as a national monument in 1954, it is now in good condition and can be visited every day.

The date of construction is unknown, probably around 1780. The building, a fine example of colonial architecture, was reworked several times between 1873 and 1945. In 1945, he became the property of the Époux Flores-Moreno, who established a historical Museum with objects that belonged to generals O'Higgins, San Martín, Manuel Rodriguez and Las Heras. Today, the building, restored in 1995 and then in 2011 after the earthquake of 2010 which destroyed it almost entirely, serves as the showroom for the Regional museum.

Founded in 1835, this convent was the mother house of the Franciscan missions in the south. The region owes them about fifteen churches between Río Biueno and Chillán. The convent museum exhibits various ancient objects, including a incunable printed in Venice in 1495 and a tanagra, Greek terracotta figurine dating from before our age, and others, cultuels, such as chalices, th-as well as colonial furniture and a rich collection of images carved in wood… We can also see letters from O'Higgins, who was pupil of the Franciscans in his childhood.

A museum dedicated to the indigenous peoples of the region and the épopée landscape. Its main archaeological collection comes from the Cerro Esmeralda; His most remarkable element is a Inca princess (1450-1500) mummified with her clothes. The museum also exhibits uniforms, weapons, documents and personal belongings of the Saltpeter magnat, Santiago Saltpeter. On the patio, the rebuilding of an indigenous house will delight children. Finally, on the Baquedano, a museum dependency hosts temporary exhibitions. The whole one deserves a visit.

Follow Roosevelt to Acevedo Square. A little hétéroclite museum presenting in bulk a natural science collection of about 9 000 pieces, plus some ethnographic and historical rooms. Not indispensable, except for compulsive historians.