Museo Ferroviario de Santiago
Outdoor museum with historic locomotives, passenger cars & a freight wagon, plus guided tours.
A nice collection of locomotives and wagons. The museum is surrounded by a beautiful park, and at the entrance to the park, next to the train.
The Parque Museo Ferroviario de Santiago was founded on December 19, 1984, based on the interest and the need to give shape to a museum that conserved and put in value the historical collection of machines of high patrimonial value that the Company of the State Railways. From the union of public-private wills, the collection was structured in the form of a park, with the help of the Illustrious Municipality of Santiago, which provided a site within the Quinta Normal Park, and the Private Corporation for the Dissemination of Science. and Technology, which at that time was working to generate the first technological museum in Chile, the Science and Technology Museum, which has operated in parallel with the Parque Museo Ferroviario until today.
The pieces that are exhibited in the two hectares of park, were carefully selected for their historical value or for their technical characteristics, based on an incipient collection that the workers of the now-defunct Maestranza Central de San Bernardo had kept in their facilities. Over the years, machines and a significant collection of minor objects, such as maps, plans, photographs, bibliography and historical records, have been added, generating one of the most important collections of the railway heritage of our country.