Museo Historico de Placilla

The Placilla Historical Museum is located in the town of the same name, 14 kilometers from the center of Valparaíso, the communal head. It was created in 2009 under the wing of the Placilla Cultural Center, an organization that promotes the culture and history of the sector and the country, and was born out of the need for the people themselves to collect the different objects they found in one place. of children, such as treasures that belonged to other times, but which became an everyday part of their games, and larger ones, of long conversations and speculations about the reasons for having developed there one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War in August 1891, a fact from which they have woven various stories that to this day are a fundamental part of the identity of Placilla de Peñuelas.

The current dependencies of the Museum have been built with financing from the Quiero Mi Barrio Program, an agreement between the Municipality and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning. It was the so-called "Trust Work" of the Program, an initiative led by the Placilla Cultural Center, a functional community organization of a cultural nature, made up of residents of Placilla, who insisted on the need for this space.

The museum is located on the outskirts of the city on the road to Santiago, this is an interesting museum that allows you to learn local history