Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art is located in Santiago, the capital of Chile. This is an interesting museum, attracts tourists, primarily with its extraordinary design. It was opened in 1981 and the founder is considered to be the famous architect and collector of antiquities Sergio Larrain Garcia-Moreno.

For a long time he was looking for a room where he could exhibit his collection, collected over half a century. The municipality of the capital of Chile Santiago allocated a building for the exhibition, in which the museum was subsequently opened. The museum is very interesting in terms of archaeology, anthropology, ethnography.

Among the exhibits are monuments of pre-Columbian cultures from various regions of South America. Here is an extensive collection of art, decorative and applied crafts of Indian tribes before the conquest of their territories by Europeans. The museum’s display of more than 3,000 items provides a rich insight into the history of Latin America over 10,000 years. The museum is a scientific base for many higher educational institutions in Chile.