Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino | |
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![]() Facade of the Museum in 2020. | |
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Established | December 1981 |
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Location | Bandera 361 Santiago, Chile |
Coordinates | 33°26′20″S 70°39′08″W / 33.4389055556°S 70.6521694444°W |
Type | Art museum |
Director | Cecilia Puga |
Curator | José Berenguer Rodríguez |
Public transit access | Metro station: ![]() |
Website | www |
The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Spanish: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from Central and South America.[1]
The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile. The museum was founded by the Chilean architect and antiquities collector Sergio Larraín García-Moreno, who had sought premises for the display and preservation of his private collection of pre-Columbian artefacts acquired over the course of nearly fifty years.
With the support of Santiago's municipal government at the time, García-Moreno secured the building and established the museum's curatorial institution. The museum first opened in December 1981.