Museo de Antofagasta
We are a non-profit institution, born under the wing of the former Universidad del Norte. After 20 years in this house of studies, its patrimonial assets through a loan agreement pass to the Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums of Chile (DIBAM), constituting us on April 17, 1984 in the Regional Museum of Antofagasta.
Starting in 2008 we offer a new permanent exhibition distributed in 12 rooms, in addition to an Auditorium room for mounting temporary and traveling exhibitions and carrying out extension activities.
Currently we carry out our work in two buildings that correspond to the old Customs and Maritime Governance buildings, both declared National Monuments, located in the historic and founding nucleus of Antofagasta, considered a typical area of the city.
The building of the former Maritime Government, inaugurated in 1910, houses administrative offices, a specialized heritage library, a laboratory and warehouses for collections of cultural assets.
Our vision is to be a space for community meetings, meaningful experiences and an instance of reflection on regional heritage, collective memory and local identity.
From the field of learning and dissemination, we seek to be a welcoming and interactive place, capable of delivering an attractive cultural offer and a didactic and formative museography.
Our mission is to contribute to the knowledge of the Cultural Heritage of Antofagasta from a multidisciplinary perspective; preserving and investigating the heritage, spreading the history and the cultural settlements of the coast, and contributing to make sense of our identity.