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List Of Museums In Chile
This is a list of museums in Chile. List * Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts * Museum of Memory and Human Rights * Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago de Chile) * Archaeological Museum of La Serena * Anthropological Museum R. P. Sebastián Englert * Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio * Palacio Cousiño * Museo Arqueológico de Santiago * Museo Campesino de Colima * Museo de Santiago * Museo Catedral Metropolitana * Museo Colonial San Francisco * Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago * Chilean National History Museum * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Valdivia * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile) * Museo Artequinbr>Museo Artequín* Museo de Ciencia y Tecnología * Museo de la Solidaridad "Salvador Allende" * Museo Mapuche * Chilean National Museum of Natural History * Museo Nao Victoria * Museo Regional de la Araucanía * La Chascona, Pablo Neruda's house, now a museum * Museo La Sebastiana (Casa Pablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean National Museum Of Fine Arts
The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts ( es, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes or ), located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880 (making it the oldest in South America), the organization is managed by the Artistic Union (). The current building, the Palace of the Fine Arts (), dates to 1910 and commemorates the first centennial of the Independence of Chile. It was designed by the Chilean architect Emile Jéquier in a full-blown Beaux-arts style and is situated in the Parque Forestal of Santiago. Behind it is located the Museum of Contemporary Art () of the University of Chile, in which is also located the old School of Fine Arts (). History The museum was officially founded on September 18, 1880, and originally named (National Painting Museum). The president of Chile, Don Aníbal Pinto, the minister Don Manuel García de la Huerta, Marcos Segundo Maturana and the sculptor José Miguel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilean National Museum Of Natural History
The Chilean National Museum of Natural History ( es, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, links=no or ) is one of three national museums in Chile, along with the Museum of Fine Arts and the National History Museum. It is located in Quinta Normal Park. Founded on September 14, 1830 by the French naturalist Claudio Gay, the director of the Museum and the Botanical garden was another Frenchman Jean-François Dauxion-Lavaysse. History The museum is one of the oldest natural history museums in South America. It was founded on September 14, 1830 by the French naturalist Claudio Gay, commissioned by the Chilean government. Its first director was another Frenchman Jean-François Dauxion-Lavaysse.Its original mandate was the biology and geography of Chile, with a concentration on crops and mineral resources. The current building was constructed in 1875 as a palace, or pavilion, for the Chilean International Exhibition. In 1889 departments of botany, zoology, and mineralogy were establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Museums By Country
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Museums In Chile
This is a list of museums in Chile. List * Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts * Museum of Memory and Human Rights * Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago de Chile) * Archaeological Museum of La Serena * Anthropological Museum R. P. Sebastián Englert * Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio * Palacio Cousiño * Museo Arqueológico de Santiago * Museo Campesino de Colima * Museo de Santiago * Museo Catedral Metropolitana * Museo Colonial San Francisco * Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago * Chilean National History Museum * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Valdivia * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile) * Museo Artequinbr>Museo Artequín* Museo de Ciencia y Tecnología * Museo de la Solidaridad "Salvador Allende" * Museo Mapuche * Chilean National Museum of Natural History * Museo Nao Victoria * Museo Regional de la Araucanía * La Chascona, Pablo Neruda's house, now a museum * Museo La Sebastiana (Casa Pablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums By Country
This list of museums is defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (''i.e.'', virtual museums) are not included. For individual topics, see list of science museums, list of natural history museums, list of transport museums, and articles on art galleries, print rooms, national museums and art museums in general. According to the ''Museums of the World'', there are about 55,000 museums in 202 countries. Afghanistan Åland * Åland Maritime Museum * Åland Museum * Kastelholm Castle * Pommern (ship) Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain *Bahrain National Museum * Beit Al Quran Bangl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palacio Baburizza
Palacio Baburizza is the former residence of Croatian businessman Pascual Baburizza located in Valparaíso, Chile. It was built in 1916 by Italian architects, and eventually turned into a museum in 1971, and declared a historic monument in 1976. History Palacio Baburizza was built upon request from one of the most important families of Valparaiso, the Zanelli family. It was purchased in 1925 by Pascual Baburizza, a distinguished investor in saltpeter mines who managed to have an important fortune in Chile, which was largely devoted to philanthropic works. In 1971, the palace was bought by the local government of Valparaiso to be used as a museum and a school of Fine Arts. Today, it gathers an important collection of works; many of these bequeathed by Pascual Baburizza. Mauricio Rugendas, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, Alfredo Helsby and Carlos Hermosilla Álvarez are among the most important painters. The museum was closed for renovations in 1997 and reopened in 2011. The buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum
The Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum is an anthropology museum in Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino, in southernmost Chile. It is the southernmost museum of the world. The museum hosts artifacts, maps and photographs related to the 10,000-year history of the Yahgan people, as well as European settlers since the 19th century. Samples of local flora and fauna are also displayed, as well as photographs and text from the founding of Puerto Williams. History Before the museum was founded, archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ... materials from the island's coastal areas as well as objects of historical interest were collected and exhibited in then-Mixed School N°3 of Puerto Williams. The museum was proposed and built by the Chilean Navy in 1974, which had a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Air Museum Viña Del Mar
Open Air Museum Viña del Mar ( es, Museo al Aire Libre de Viña del Mar) is an open-air art museum located near Recreo, Viña del Mar, Chile, near the city of Valparaíso. The museum called, "Walls watching the sea", is focused on reproductions of Chilean Modern art executed by Claudio Francia Willms. Myriam Parra Vásquez is the curator of the museum. The work has the support of the Regional Government of Valparaíso. It is a project of the Association of Neighborhood Councils of Recreo, administered by the non-profit organization Fundación Tempestad. The museum is conceptually linked to the poems of Gonzalo Villar (poet), Gonzalo Villar. Daniel Avendaño, Tres Párrafos; accessed 24.02.2012 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museo Histórico Y Antropológico Maurice Van De Maele
Museo Histórico y Antropológico Maurice van de Maele or (Spanish for ''Historical and Anthropologic Museum Maurice van de Maele'') is an anthropology and history museum in Valdivia run by Universidad Austral de Chile. The exhibitions at the museum deals with Mapuche and Huilliche culture and the German colonization of southern Chile. The museums exhibits collections of archaeological artifacts and also tools, toys, jewelry, textiles, ceramics and photo collection. The museum is named after a Belgian amateur journalist, archaeologist and anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ... who worked in Universidad Austral. Museums in Los Ríos Region Museo Histórico y Antropológico Maurice van de Maele University museums in Chile Antropológico Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museo De La Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi
Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi (Spanish for ''Museum of the Exploration Rudolph Amandus Philippi'') is a museum in Valdivia run by Austral University of Chile. The exhibitions at the museum deals with the exploration of southern Chile, specially those made by the German naturalist Rodolfo Amando Philippi Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. Philippi contributed primarily to malacology and paleontology. His grandson, Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados .... Museums in Los Ríos Region Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi University museums in Chile Natural history museums in Chile Museums established in 2006 Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi German-Chilean_architecture {{chile-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla Negra
Isla Negra is a coastal area in El Quisco commune in central Chile, some 45 km (70 km by road) south of Valparaiso and 96 km (110 km by road) west of Santiago. Pablo Neruda Isla Negra is best known as the residence of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who lived there at Casa de Isla Negra Casa de Isla Negra was one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. It is located at Isla Negra, a coastal area of El Quisco commune, located about 45 km south of Valparaíso and 96 km west of Santiago. It was his favourite house and ... (with long periods of travel and exile) from 1939 until his death in 1973. The area was named by Neruda, after the dark outcrop of rocks just offshore. It literally means "black island" in Spanish. The Casa de Isla Negra is now a museum. Every year on Neruda's birthday (12 July), there are celebrations, both at the house and in the artisans' square nearby. There are poetry readings, music and picnics on the beach. Community Altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casa De Isla Negra
Casa de Isla Negra was one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. It is located at Isla Negra, a coastal area of El Quisco commune, located about 45 km south of Valparaíso and 96 km west of Santiago. It was his favourite house and where he and his third wife, Matilde Urrutia, spent the majority of their time in Chile. Neruda, a lover of the sea and all things maritime, built the home to resemble a ship with low ceilings, creaking wood floors and narrow passageways. A passionate collector, every room has a different collection of bottles, ship figureheads, maps, ships in bottles, and an impressive array of shells, which are located in their own "Under the Sea" room. Neruda fell in love with the house upon visiting the area and requested an advance from his original publisher Carlos George-Nascimento, who provided him with the money for the purchase. Neruda originally intended the house to be used as a meeting point for writers, and dedicated the place to Nascimento a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
