Colchagua Museum — Attraction in Santa Cruz

This is such an unexpected gem.

I have never experienced such a museum in a small town like this, anywhere.

It easily competes with any London based museum, for the range of topics, breadth of history and a vast display of artefacts from every period of mankind.

Whether paleontology, history, the politics of this continent, ancient civilisations, or anything else, is your "thing" then this is well worth a visit.

The collection just keeps going on and on. One thinks this is the end, then bang, out into a courtyard you go with traction engines with more about textiles of the people of the continent, is, a section on Darwin.

The layout of the exhibits is second to none. The glass cases are pristine, which is a feat in itself.

The price is incredibly low for what is delivered and on display. Plus, the tickets last for 24 hours, and to do it justice, I can see why some would take two visits. Even then, for some, that may not be enough.

The staff are friendly, polite and courteous.

I cannot see why anyone can give less than five stars to this museum. It goes well beyond all expectations of a museum, in a small town, in Chile, in a valley in the Andes.

It is so worth a visit, for all ages.

Very, very highly...

One of the most complete museums of the whole of Chile. This museum exhibits everything from the pre-colonial tribes in Chile to its most recent history and achievements. A vast collection of fossils and pieces collected from the desert's and beaches of northern Chile is featured, as well as many original paintings, manuscripts and treasures. Walk through Chilean history with every detail. Additionally, it contains 4 additional exhibits; one on transportations development in Chile, from carriages to trains, secondly, a biological exhibit contain numerous species from Darwin's collection, third, a jewelry collection from the India's, and finally, an small yet complete collection of both worlds wars. Located in a rural town and operated by professional staff, which even offer audio guides in different languages. At a minor entry cost, one gets to take spend as much time as they wish, and even return within 24 hours. For those interested in history, biology, war, art, cultures and more, this is the place to go. I would recommend it to everyone, if going with younger kids, you can spend more time in the outside area, as you find interest in exhibits out there, they may play around in the historic gardens...

Without any doubt, the Colchagua museum is a must while in Santa Cruz if you like museums, of course, it has a brief introduction on how earth started, main ages from the paleozoic era l till our days, and it gets more detail in the southern American cultures, getting more detailed towards the ones who occupied the actual Chilean land, most of then sadly extinguished by the colonization process, who is also depicted, as well as the different periods of the Chilean history to finally ends with the Colchagua valley and its huasos, in brief, is a history tell as a funnel converging in this territory. It also has an industrialization area, mainly represented by late XIX and early XX centuries, beautiful machines, definitely lovely and also liked it very much a huge collection of amber with lot of bugs and plants captured within, you have the help of augmented lens to see them through the light. Sounds good, right? It is indeed, the only missing star is because some info is not totally accurate and most because there's no written info in other language than...