The Museo Colchagua in Santa Cruz, Chile was one of the few museums I was able to visit during my tour from north to south. And it is a special one, not really going deep into topics but very wide. It starts with some archeological exhibits, shows the time of the Spanish invasion and the first settlers, gives inside into the developement of the republic and then switches over to winemaking (important in this area) and it exhibits also some railways.
What irritated me pretty much was the way how the conflict between the republicans (under Allende) and the fascists (under Pinochet) was displayed. Uncritically exhibited where items of both sides. It was somehow like the history of fascism in Spain, where the deeds of General Franco are still not investigated thoroughly. To overcome my bad feelings about this I had to begin singing the famous “El pueblo unido“.
“Y ahora el pueblo
que se alza en la lucha
con voz de gigante
gritando: ¡adelante!El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,
el pueblo unido jamás será vencido.”
– Sergio Ortega
Museo Colchagua
Av. Errazuriz 145
Santa Cruz, Chile
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