Alhué Alhué is located 150 km from Santiago. According to the indian tradition, it is the town of ghosts, but it is more obviously a little-explored example of the colonial past, a few kilometers from the center of Santiago.Alhué is considered a typical zone. Before the 1985 earthquake, more than 90 per cent of the...

The main characteristic of the original collection is that the various pieces were not chosen for scientific or anthropological or even encyclopedic reasons. Its interest and homogeneity derives from the fact that they were chosen according to the aesthetic criteria of the donor. From there the name "art" museum originates, in order to...

The Museo Nacional Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was created by government decree in 1947, but was not inaugurated until 1957. Since then it has been a unit of the Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos. Its objective is to give information about the life and work of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna and his times, encouraging historical...