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Londres 4. Universidad de Chile Subway.
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm and 3 pm to 6 pm.
Colonial art collection and paintings. Showcases the birth, life, miracles, and death of St. Francisco. This museum contains the best collection of Cuzquena paintings in South America.
www.museosanfrancisco.cl
CHILEAN MUSEUM OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ART .2
Bandera 361. Plaza de Armas Subway.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.
The permanent collection contains approximately 3,000 pieces that relate the history and evolution of American peoples.
Showcases pre-Columbian ceramics and textiles from Mexico to Chile.
www.precolombino.cl
MUSEUM OF VISUAL ART .3
José Victorino Lastarria 307. Universidad Catolica and Bellas Artes Subway.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm.
The museum's permanent collection exhibits works from Chile's most well-known contemporary artists from the 1980s to today.
www.mavi.cl
MUSEUM OF SANTIAGO, CASA COLORADA.4
Merced 860. Plaza de Armas Subway.
Open Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday and holidays 11 am to 2 pm.
Five permanent showrooms display Santiago's history from pre-Hispanic times until the Republic's foundation.
www.munistgo.cl/colorada
NATIONAL HISTORIC MUSEUM .5
Plaza de Armas 951. Plaza de Armas Subway
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5:30 pm.
The National Historic Museum's mission is to offer the national community access to knowledge and re-creations of Chile's history in order to recognize, though collection, conservation, research, and dissemination, the value of the tangible and intangible heritage that make up Chile's historic memory.
www.museohistoriconacional.cl / www.dibam.cl
MUSEUM OF "LA MERCED" CHURCH.6
Mac-Iver 341. Santa Lucía Subway.
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.
Open Sunday 10 am to 2 pm. Closed on holidays.
This museum presents missionary and colonial life within the Order of la Merced. Three showrooms display a valuable collection of Baroque, pre-Columbian, and Polynesian art, telling the story of the monks' activities in Latin America.
www.museolamerced.cl
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART .7
Parque Forestal s/n. Universidad Católica and Bellas Artes Subway
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6:45 pm.
Holds a collection of approximately 5,600 works, including paintings, sculptures, and engravings by national and foreign artists, from colonial times to present.
www.mnba.cl
POSTAL SERVICES AND TELEGRAPH MUSEUM .8
Central Post Office. Plaza de Armas (Santiago's Main Square)
Open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5:30 pm.
This museum presents the importance and development of communication and postal services in the 250 years since the foundation of the Chilean Postal Service. Visitors can view a re-created 1900s postal office, over 300,000 seals from all over the world, a complete display of telegraph machines dating from 1850, and a stamp gallery.