Museo de la Educacion Gabriela Mistral

The Gabriela Mistral Education Museum (MEGM), dependent on the National Subdirectorate for Museums, is a state institution specialized in the history of education in Chile. It was created in 1941 with the name of Pedagogical Museum of Chile, and with the aim of hosting and exhibiting the material collected in the framework of the Retrospective Exhibition of Teaching.

Thus, the aim was to make the history of national public and private education known to the public, to gather the elements that would make it possible to understand its development and to expose the artistic, scientific, literary and didactic production of teachers. In 1981, it moved to the building where the Brigida Walker Normal School for Girls No. 1 operated between 1886 and 1973.

In 1985, the institution suspended its activities of public attention and exhibition of collections due to structural damage to the property caused by the earthquake that affected the central zone of the country that year. The natural disaster, added to the lack of commitment to culture and education during the military civic dictatorship, maintained this situation until 2000.