Casa de Isla Negra

Casa de Isla Negra is a house museum on the coast of El Quisco in Chile, made up of several interconnected buildings. The rooms are low-ceilinged and lined with dark wood, windows open toward the Pacific, and collections of navigation instruments and finds from the sea fill every corner.

Pablo Neruda bought this stone cabin in 1938 from a Spanish sailor named Eladio Sobrino and expanded it over the following decades. The house was converted into a museum after his death in 1973 and preserves the personal collection and living space of the poet.

Poet Pablo Neruda called this his favorite home and wrote many poems here about the sea and the coast. Visitors today see rooms arranged as he last lived in them, filled with furniture and objects from around the world that reflect his love of seafaring and craftsmanship.

The museum opens from Wednesday through Sunday, and a guided tour lasts about one hour. Visitors enter in groups with a guide who leads them through the rooms and explains details about the collections.

The graves of Pablo Neruda and his wife Matilde Urrutia lie on the property facing the sea. Visitors can see the simple stone markers standing just a few meters from the house on a small rise.