museo Colchagua
The Colchagua Museum is a Chilean museum located in the commune of Santa Cruz, in the Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins Region. It is a private institution, administered by the Cardoen Foundation, headed by the Chilean businessman Carlos Cardoen.
Its collection includes about 7,000 objects related mainly to the areas of paleontology, archeology, and history of Chile and the world. In its rooms it has sectors dedicated to each topic:
Paleontology: Contains fossils of different species.
Prehistory of Chile: It has objects related to the diverse aboriginal cultures of the country.
Prehistory of America: Exhibits articles belonging to pre-Hispanic cultures of the continent.
Conquest: It has documents that belonged to Pedro de Valdivia and weapons used at the time.
Cologne: Objects of daily use at the time are exhibited, including coins and period furniture.
Liturgical art: Contains religious imagery from different periods, mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Independence of Chile: It has the instal act of the constitution of the First National Board of Government of Chile in 1810, a piano that belonged to Bernardo O'Higgins and the presidential band of José Miguel Carrera, among others.
Republic: Contains objects related to the Pacific War, the Revolution of 1891, and the incorporation of Easter Island into Chilean territory, among other events.
Modernity: Sample containing objects related to the 19th and 20th centuries, including radio, cinema and communication technologies.
Weapons: Exhibits weapons used from ancient times to World War II.
The great rescue: Room where elements of the mining alluding to the famous rescue of the 33 miners trapped in the San José Mine in the year 2010 are exhibited. This collection also has a replica of the Fénix II capsule, in which these miners were rescued .
Motor Show: It has models of vehicles from different eras, including a 1903 Dupressoir La Ponette, a 1931 Ford A and the car used by the Chilean pilot Eliseo Salazar when he participated in the Indy Car category.