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Updated, January 16, 2008 Housed in the former colonial Customs House, Santiago's Pre-Columbian Museum (Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) is a treasure house of extraordinary and beautiful artifacts representing the four and a half thousand years of civilzation that existed in Meso and South America before the arrival of Europeans. Encompassing regions stretching from Mexico in the north, east to the Amazon Basin and to the Southern Andes, the collection is unequalled anywhere for its artistic and aesthetic merits and depiction of the marvellous diversity of the cultures of this world. Magnificent Nazca textiles, the colours as clear and bright as the day they were made 1000 years ago; ceramics vigorously depicting men, animals and strange hybrid creatures, often with great humour; stone carvings of gods; a showcase of quirky hats - all this and much more. The museum is very well laid out and the signage is excellent. Even if museums are not your thing, you should see this one. As well as the permanent collection there are regular special exhibitions. I've seen two of these now - the first on quipus (see the next tip) and, more recently, hats. Both of them blew me away with the fascination of their subjects, the amazing condition and beauty of the artifacts and the sophistication and elegance of their presentation. The exhibition of hats has finished now but you can still catch it take a virtual tour here, the text is in Spanish but the images speak for themselves. Click on the hats and enter another world. The current exhibition really packs a punch. Entitled Morir para gobernar it tells of dominant forces of sex and war in Pre-Colombian Meso-America through the medium of the superbly graphic ceramic art of the region - if you're heading for Santiago - don't miss it! Leave a Comment Directions: One block from Plaza de Armas The website is in Spanish with an English information sectionWebsite: http://www.precolombino.cl/es/index.html
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Este museu possui um acervo incrivel de peças de povos que viviam na América antes da chegada de Colombo, como os Aymarás, Quechuas, Incas Mais dentre outros. O museu possui dentre outras peças, utensilios como jarros, ferramentas de trabalho e armas, também incriveis estatuas de pedra representando homens em tamanho natural. Este museo tiene una incrivel coleccion de cosas de povos que vivian en America antes de lo arribo de Colon aca, como los Ayamaras, Quechuas, Incas y otros. Las obras mais increibles en la coleccion del museo son las artesanias de guerras y unas statuas de hombres de piedra en tamaño natural. This museum holds an increadible collection of artefacts made by the people who lived in America before the arrival of Columbus here. The most increadible pieces of the musem holds are the war artefacts and a few statues made of stone, wich represents soldiers in their natural sizes. Leave a Comment
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