Dear Reader (2026-04-01 posted simultaneously to FB)
Today you and I go for a wander through Santiago, Chile. I visited three Museums or Art Galleries, and they were all richly rewarding. The Museum of Memory and Human Rights is architecturally interesting and filled with content that is sad, tragic, and uplifting. The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art is filled with some of the most gorgeous artifacts I have ever seen. The National Museum of Fine Arts (Photos 2,3) has some inspiring works. It is always a treat to visit art galleries in foreign lands, and to get small insights to how those places represent themselves.
I also stopped to photograph a street performer, with his permission and for a contribution to his golden bowl (5). I would of course be remiss if I didn’t at least acknowledge the presence of Catholicism (10) throughout Chile and for that matter South America. The building in photo 11 is “known as El Costanera (the Costanera) by locals. It is a 62-story skyscraper in and is the tallest building in South America. The tower was designed by Chilean architects Alemparte Barreda & Asociados, the Argentine architect César Pelli, and the Canadian (flag waving moment) company Watt International.”[1]
Today’s collection ends with an umbrella. Any day I can partially spend under an umbrella with something as luxurious as an Aperol Spritz or as is this case a bottle of water is a good one.
Footnotes
~ [1] – Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Torre_Costanera
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