Museums in Santiago de Chile

We were a bit late to book a hop on hop off bus tour or other local tour as they were all booked up. Therefore we ended up going to two museums and were able to walk to them both. My watch recorded 6.5 KM walking. 

The first museum was Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. There was a remarkable collection of art objects from the whole of South America from Mexico south including the Caribbean. From an archaeologist and anthropologist perspective one could have spent hours there but after a while one gets informational overload. We then had lunch in an open air cafe. Masses of Chilean people on the street - it may be summer holiday time. Unfortunately in both Argentina and Chile there is very little in the way of classical or other music performed during the hot months of January and February. 

Hugh has been using Google translate that is useful to interpret menus and communicate with staff.

The second museum was Muse de Bel Arts. It was not advertised on trip advisor. Perhaps because is was free! There was some interesting commentary about how Chile formed its own fairly unique art style. There was much less religious symbols but more sexually explicit art than one would find in Europe.

There are even campers in the park like we have in Pioneer square at home.