Museo de la Memoria

The “Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos” is located in Santiago. It was founded in January 11, 2010 by ex-president Michelle Bachelet. This museum was built to commemorate the victims of human rights violations during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship period.

This museum is meant to be a way to gain knowledge about a period of time in which Chile was under control of the military forces. There are three floors in this museum. Every one of them with a different topic about the same issue human rights violations during Pinochet’s dictatorship.

. The first floor is about the events occurred during September 11^th, 1973 and the immediate effects in Chile’s reality.

. The second floor is about the fight against Augusto Pinochet’s government and the legacy of this period of time.

. The third floor has photo galleries and a cafeteria.

The main purpose of this museum is to remember the events that changed our history just 38 years ago, “mission accomplished”. But only partially the museum only shows one side of the story and as we all know there are always two sides of it.