Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Facade of the Museum in 2020.
Established	December 1981 (1981-12)
Location	Bandera 361 Santiago, Chile
Coordinates	33°26′20″S 70°39′08″W / 33.4389055556°S 70.6521694444°W / -33.4389055556; -70.6521694444
Type	Art museum
Director	Cecilia Puga
Curator	José Berenguer Rodríguez
Public transit access	Metro station: Plaza de Armas
Website	www.precolombino.cl

The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Spanish: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from Central and South America.^[1]

The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile. The museum was founded by the Chilean architect and antiquities collector Sergio Larraín García-Moreno, who had sought premises for the display and preservation of his private collection of pre-Columbian artefacts acquired over the course of nearly fifty years.

With the support of Santiago's municipal government at the time, García-Moreno secured the building and established the museum's curatorial institution. The museum first opened in December 1981.