Handpicked from the same exhibitions lineup, scored for this weekend.
SCIENCE
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural
Chile's natural history museum in Quinta Normal park since 1830. Paleontology, zoology and Chilean ecosystems. The whale skeleton hall is iconic. Free admission.
EXHIBITIONS
Museo de la Memoria
Powerful museum documenting human rights violations during Chile's dictatorship. Free permanent exhibition plus rotating shows on human rights worldwide. Near Metro Quinta Normal.
EXHIBITIONS
Museo de Arte Precolombino
World-class pre-Columbian art museum near Plaza de Armas. Permanent galleries of Andean, Mesoamerican and Amazonian artifacts plus temporary exhibitions. Free on first Sundays.
EXHIBITIONS
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Chile's principal fine arts museum in a stunning 1910 Beaux-Arts building in Parque Forestal. Permanent collection plus rotating exhibitions. Free admission.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Poetics of Waters - Cheril Linett
Five site-specific performances linking performative imagery, photography and audiovisual documentation to death, abuse, injustice and gender violence. Recurring coastal symbols-crosses, houses, animitas-reveal heteropatriarchal violence across Chilean territory.
SCULPTURE
Twisted Branch
Site-specific installation imagining a climate-changed future transformed into vast wetlands, mangroves and swamps. Rather than arid desolation, the exhibition proposes a humid dystopia inspired by climate fiction and J.G. Ballard's submerged worlds.
PAINTING
Wardrobe - Dominique Bradbury
Bradbury obsessively examines feminine-coded elements-fashion details, skincare routines, trends-in dialogue with a 19th-century painting from MAC's collection by Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, colliding present aesthetics with historical representation.
CONTEMPORARY
Finding, Replica, Fiction - Hugo Leonello
In 2017, Hugo Leonello discovered 1980s protest pamphlets hidden in the museum building's structure. That discovery became the catalyst for an investigation and reconstruction exploring archival gesture and historical erasure.
