Guided tour 100% recommended - I made the reservation for a guided tour, I made the request through the museum's website and everything turned out spectacular, very good service and very detailed explanation from the guide who attended our group, I recommend getting to know the museum in this way, otherwise you will They would lose very valuable information. We close the visit at the pre-Columbian café, both experiences 100% recommended. Greetings.

Definitely worth a visit! - Beautiful museum with a great , peaceful coffee shop. I spent about 2 hours here and especially enjoyed the Chile before Chile gallery.

Modern museum - Beautifully renovated building. Very modern and professional. Not very big, but definitely worth it. The -1 floor was the nicest.

The most incredible museum in Santiago - Don't miss it. - The museum was much better than I imagined, leaving me quite impressed. You'll find Mayan, Inca and Aztec art, and if you're lucky (like we were), a security guard will give you super interesting information about the fabrics. Entrance is expensive, but worth every penny.

Extensive, well organized collection of artifacts. - When you ask the average person (including this reviewer before visiting this museum) to list the significant civilizations of pre-Colombian Central and South America you will likely get a short list that includes the Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Incas. The Chilean Museum of Pre-Colombian Art dispels this notion in decisive fashion. Inaugurated in 1981 and extensively renovated in 2014, the institution’s collection contains over 3,000 items categorized into almost 100 different groups spanning 10,000 years. It is a virtual treasure trove of irreplaceable artistic objects. I visited twice here on consecutive days at the end of my week in the country. The building consists of three main sections: a lower floor exhibit covering the history of Chile Before Chile,” a larger second floor experience covering the rest of the Americas (minus upper North America), and a smaller rotating exhibit on the ground floor displaying “daily wear and tear” and its effects on indigenous artifacts. “Chile Before Chile” is divided geographically; artifacts from the Far North, Near North, Central, and Southern zones are grouped and include items as diverse as neonatal mummies and wooden flutes. The second-floor collection is more extensive, covering a larger geographic area, and included an even more varied set of objects: Mayan ceramic vases, Shaman wooden “purging spatulas,” Vicus ceramic house models, etc. The rotating exhibit was in a single room and fairly brief, while a small gift shop rounded out the experience. In summary, this was an equally memorable and exhausting experience. First and most importantly, as stated in the introduction it truly opened my eyes to the variegated groups of people that inhabited this part of the Americas in the past. Most of the items on display were simply beautiful to look at and English translations were thankfully the norm and not the exception. Second, the museum does an above average job of organization, with the groups displayed geographically in eight rooms with timelines shown for temporal context. My only suggestion to the staff would be to have a phone app or audio guide to make the place easier to navigate for those with limited time. In any case, this museum should be included on even the most cursory visit to Santiago.

Interesting - Very interesting. Nice diversity in south american culture including the similarities and differences in regional craft and culture.

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino - I was under the impression that the core of the exhibition is comprised of artifacts found in Chile but it's rather a collection of finds from different regions of South and Central America. Good collection of pottery from Chavin and Wari cultures. Signage is both in Spanish and English. The entry fee is 10,000 CLP

Became a little repetitive. - 10,000 pesos to enter which for what it contained seemed a little on the expensive side. There are lots of artefacts on display, but concentrating on 'historic art' it focuses on ceramics, stonework and carvings. Covering each region by region from Mexico to Chile became a little repetitive.

Expensive and disappointing if you are not Chilean. - The reception was detestable, a shame to be so nonchalant and rude. The museum is not big and does not deserve the higher cost for foreigners (10000 instead of 2000)! The layout of the rooms is a bit chaotic, we don't know where to start... It's a shame. On the other hand, the room in the basement is definitely worth a look.

disappointed - Disappointed, we are in 2024 and sad situations still exist. in this museum, in the center of the city, they do not make any reductions for disabled people