Chile Guide
Santiago
Museo Artequín
Opening time: Tues– Fri 9am–5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-6pm
Price: Voluntary fee
Telephone: 6818687
Address: Parque Quinta Normal
The wildly colourful glass and metal building standing opposite the park's Avenida Portales entrance was originally the Chilean pavilion in the Universal Exhibition in Paris, 1889. It now contains the engaging Museo Artequín – short for Arte en la Quinta – which aims to bring people, especially schoolchildren, closer to art by exposing them to reproductions of the world's greatest paintings in a relaxed, less intimidating environment. They're all here, from El Greco and Delacroix through to Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, and copious plastic information cards tell you all about the artists and their work.