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Museums in Punta Arenas

Posted by ChileGuide | 3rd October 2009

Do you have some hours in Punta Arenas? Would you like to learn and discover about the history, culture, religion, fauna, flora and domestic trade? If the answer is yes, then “Maggiorino Borgatello” is the right museum for you.

This historical collection was put together in 1893 by Maggiorino Borgatello with

Angel Benove and is up to these days the most thorough record of culture and life style in the city. Here you can find:

Flora and Fauna: this is one of the oldest collections in Patagonia. It even has samples of animals that are extinct and others that can only be be found in the Antarctic territory.

Ethnography: the collection includes tools, clothes, hunting tools, religious objects of the native groups that once roamed Patagonia. It is also important to mention that this museum has some of the few films made by Alberto De Agostini that capture the motion of these groups.

Missions: there is a vast collection of religious artifacts of the Salesian congregation. This

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