NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM

                      

National History Museum

Plaza de Armas # 951

Phone: 633 04 62

Web site: http://www.dibam.cl/historico_nacional

Opened Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:30 hrs.

Subway Station: Plaza de Armas (green line Nº 5)

It was created by decree in May 2^nd, 1911. Owing to influences of Joaquin Figueroa Larraín the senator at that time, the first pieces of the national museum came from the old indigenous museum, created by Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna in Santa Lucia Park. also it received some objects from the National History Gallery created by Miguel Luis Amunategui in 1876 and from the military museum inaugurated in 1893 at the war academy building.

At the beginning The National History Museum was located at the Fine Arts Museum Palace then when the collection was growing, some other pieces were located at the National Library Building, but, the continuous lack of  space was the reason to decide to move out all the collection to the Royal Audience Palace, been inaugurated in 1982.

The collection counts with a variety of objects from the pre Hispanic period, conquest, colony, independence, Republic and modern times until 1973.