Museo Artequin Viña del Mar, Children's art museum in Quinta Vergara, Viña del Mar, Chile.
Museo Artequin Viña del Mar is an educational art museum inside the Quinta Vergara park, in the Parque Potrerillos sector of Viña del Mar, Chile. Its collection consists of reproductions: 85 photographic reproductions of Western paintings from the 15th to the 20th century, sculptural reproductions from Egyptian art to the 20th century, and two collections of reproductions of Chilean painting used for travelling exhibitions.
Artequin Viña del Mar opened in September 2008 inside the Quinta Vergara, in the Parque Potrerillos sector. In 2012 it won first place at the III Ibero-American Prize for Education and Museums of Ibermuseos, and it won that prize again in 2016 with the project Generando complicidades. Fondart projects added the Sala de los Sentidos and the Plazoleta Miró in 2013.
The museum runs regular art workshops and creative activities where children can participate hands-on with different artistic techniques. These programs let young visitors explore and develop their own artistic abilities through direct engagement.
The museum sits inside Quinta Vergara, in the Parque Potrerillos sector of Viña del Mar, not in the city centre. Guided visits for school and institutional groups last 60 to 90 minutes and combine an audiovisual, a dialogue on the works and a creation workshop, so groups should book ahead.
The museum's educational exhibitions have won the Ibermuseums Ibero-American Prize for Education and Museums twice, in 2012 and again in 2016 with the project Generando complicidades, carried out in 2017. The 2014 show ¿Cómo Somos? on cultural diversity in Latin America was funded by that same prize.
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