From great museums to shopping malls & a restaurant with a giant aquarium, here’s why you should visit Santiago, Chile.
Tag: museums
Raúl Esparza & Art World Elite Gather for El Museo del Barrio Party in New York
The Museo del Barrio, an art museum that celebrates Latino culture and creativity, held a spectacular event. Here’s who attended.
VIDEO: Frank Gehry BioMuseo Museum (Hardhat Preview Tour)
World-famous architect Frank Gehry’s first work in Latin America — the BioMuseo — opens next year in Panama, and we take a VIDEO hardhat tour of it.
Quirky Furnishings, an Artist’s Life and a Nation’s History: Pablo Neruda’s Home in Santiago
“A lot of people think that being a writer, a poet, Pablo Neruda would be boring or stuffy,” says Gonzalo, my tour guide at the home of Chile’s most celebrated writer, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1971. “But that’s not true. He was a cool guy. He was a party guy.” The…
VIDEO TOUR: Torture Devices at Cartagena’s Inquisition Museum
Hold still: The heretic’s fork Cartagena’s History Museum houses exhibits about the rich heritage of Colombia’s most popular tourism destination. But the part that seems to get the most attention is the Palacio de la Inquisición, which now houses a museum of the Inquisition. This violent phase of Roman Catholic history tried supposed heretics within…
VIDEO TOUR: Torture Devices at Cartagena’s Inquisition Museum
Hold still: The heretic’s fork Cartagena’s History Museum houses exhibits about the rich heritage of Colombia’s most popular tourism destination. But the part that seems to get the most attention is the Palacio de la Inquisición, which now houses a museum of the Inquisition. This violent phase of Roman Catholic history tried supposed heretics within…
VIDEO TOUR: Torture Devices at Cartagena’s Inquisition Museum
Hold still: The heretic’s fork Cartagena’s History Museum houses exhibits about the rich heritage of Colombia’s most popular tourism destination. But the part that seems to get the most attention is the Palacio de la Inquisición, which now houses a museum of the Inquisition. This violent phase of Roman Catholic history tried supposed heretics within…
The Insider’s Tour of Antigua Guatemala
The helpful folks at Posada del Angel (the amazing seven-room luxury hotel where I’m staying in Antigua Guatemala — more about that in a future post) yesterday made an excellent recommendation: They set me up for a city tour with Elizabeth Bell, a local woman who runs a company called Antigua Tours. I’ve been on countless…