Museo Artequin

Santiago


Education and entertainment come together at the Museo Artequin, a museum of copies of famous artworks hung at kiddy height in a striking cast iron and glass structure used as Chile’s pavilion in the 1889 Paris Exhibition (think Eiffel Tower).


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