A weekend of museums

Saturday I went to two museums, Bellas Artes (fine arts) and Arte Contemporáneo. Bellas Artes had one permanent exhibition of Chilean art from colonial times to present which contained some very beautiful paintings, but there were two temporary exhibitions of very odd modern art.

Museo de Bellas Artes

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, housed in a different part of the same building as Bellas Artes, had an exposition of paintings of children dressed up as superheroes and an exposition of Korean art.

View from Museo de Arte Contemporáneo

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo

On Sunday, I went to the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Precolumbian art). It has collections of art from prehistoric up to when the conquistadores came to the Americas, and the collections are from all over Central and South America.

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

I then visited the Museo Histórico Nacional, which covers essentially the entirety of Chilean history, starting with the first Chileans at Monteverde (the oldest archaeological site in the Americas- surprising because Chile was supposed to be the last place in the Americas that humans reached) and going through until Pinochet's coup. They have on display Salvador Allende's glasses, or rather the half that is left of them. (Allende was the president forcibly removed by Pinochet's coup.)

Museo Histórico Nacional