It is the Chilean Museum, founded Father Sebastian Englert and keeps a valuable collection of graphic objects and drawing on the culture of Rapa - Nui. The museum collects, preserves and researches ancestral heritage of Easter Island and its native naroda.Dlya this purpose MAP keeps archaeological and specialized bibliographic collection. Given its remoteness, the Museum has a unique challenge in the projection of the island heritage. In this sense, it also contributes, on an ongoing basis, the various scientific and cultural manifestations with -...
Read moreRapa Nui Museum or the Father Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum is in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui(Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia. Named for the Bavarian missionary, Fr. Sebastian Englert, the museum was founded in 1973 and houses many items of Island's past history and is dedicated to the conservation of the Rapa Nui cultural patrimony. The museum is administered by the Chilean Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DiBAM) and houses the William Mulloy Library. Visit the museum to feel the island's past 1700years...
Read moreA museum have some interesting artifacts and quite some information on big standing posters (also in English!).
I've read almost all of them and felt better informed about the history of the island, raise and fall of the culture which erected moai. However it left me with a feeling that I still do not understand much.
Possibly, if you are visiting the island with a guide providing information at all the sights seeing the museum can be a nice way of putting it...
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