Museo a Cielo Abierto En San Miguel
Sixty-plus murals covering blank apartment-block walls in a working-class housing estate.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Museo a Cielo Abierto in Santiago's Poblacion San Miguel starts with the blank apartment-block walls of a 1960s housing estate, long neglected until two neighbors, Roberto Hernandez Bravo and David Villarroel Fuentes, formed a cultural group in March 2009 to paint them before demolition or graffiti could claim them first. National arts fund approval came in July 2010, leaving the founders to face the risky choice of which image to paint first.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Sculpture Park Museum
Free open-air museum of forty contemporary sculptures spread through riverside gardens and lawns.
Plaza Baquedano
Bronze equestrian monument turned protest canvas, ringed by a square famous for its street art and mass demonstrations.
Bellavista
Bohemian hillside quarter of bars, murals and galleries at the foot of a pilgrim-climbed sanctuary hill.
Palacio Pereira
Neoclassical mansion reborn from decades of ruin, its cast-iron cross-shaped gallery left scarred on purpose.
Gabriela Mistral Cultural Centre
Landmark 1970s convention center rebuilt into a public arts campus after a devastating fire.
Violeta Parra Museum
Textile tapestries, paintings and folk sculpture from a singer who built her own art from scratch.