Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

This museum is close to the center of Santiago, beside the river roughly in between the hills of Cerro Santa Lucia and Cerro San Cristobal.

When I've stayed in the Providencia area of Santiago, I've walked along by the river up to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Here is a view of the outside:



Entering the museum, you pass a gift shop on your right (where I bought a print of the architectural drawings of the museum building). Then you are in a large atrium area:



Inside there are, of course, many paintings and sculptures. It is interesting to look at the paintings from Chilean history, such as this one of Bernardo O'Higgins the Irish/Chilean independence hero: