“Its a honour for me, very meaningful, to receive these samples on behalf of the chilean people, these pictures, these works sent, by artist of the different continents, as solidarity expression...”
With this words, the ex president Salvador Allende inaugurated the Museum of the Solidarity on the 1st of May of 1972. It was created to support the social and political project that was developing in Chile in those years, and to create a museum that could allow taking the wonders of modern art and the vanguard to the working class; which have been marginalized of the speculations formal of the last time because of the lack of an education adapted to the requirements of the new aesthetic trends and the lack of resources to allow such luxury.
Locate in middle of the university neighbourhood of Santiago, it’s the only museum in the world created with donated works for the himself artist, all they of a great variety of different styles and expressive supports, which were inspired by the solidarity action of its creators and the goverment.This project manages to execute in two opportunities before the coup d'état of 1973, period in which the works were hidden until the return of the democracy, on September of 1991, and with this, it takes pleace the reinauguration of the museum and of its more than 500 works of out-standing artists as Roberto Matta, Víctor Vasarely, Joan Miró, Frank Stella, Jose Balnes, and others.
The Museum of the Solidarity Salvador Allende is not one museum more, not only it possesses big works, but also a social history of great importance worldwide.
Schedule of attention:
Value entrance: Tuesday to Saturday:
$600 public general
$300 students and third age
8-year-old Minors do not pay
On Sunday entry liberated
Address: Av. República #475, Santiago Center.
Phone: 6898761
For guided visits contact directly with the museum or to the email: mssa@mssa.cl
NAMES: Nicolás Sanchez
Aileen Riveros
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