Museo de Artes Visuales, Contemporary art museum in Santiago, Chile.

The Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI UC) stands beside the Museo Arqueológico de Santiago on Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro in the Lastarria district. Its building was designed by architects Cristián Undurraga and Ana Luisa Devés, and its contemporary art exhibitions are distributed across six rooms. One of these rooms, the Sala MAS, shows archaeological and ethnographic objects alongside contemporary works.

The museum grew out of a travelling exhibition of Chilean art from the collection of Manuel Santa Cruz and Hugo Yaconi, shown in Europe between 1994 and 1998. In 1999 the founders commissioned a building from architects Cristián Undurraga and Ana Luisa Devés, and it opened in 2001 with 650 works by more than 300 Chilean artists. In January 2021 the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Fundación Cultural Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro created the Fundación MAVI UC, officially presented in April 2022.

The museum sits beside the Museo Arqueológico de Santiago on Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro, a square named after the 19th-century Chilean portrait painter José Gil de Castro. Its Sala MAS shows archaeological and ethnographic objects in dialogue with contemporary art, a collection begun in 1981 and largely transferred to the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino in 2011.

The museum sits beside the Museo Arqueológico de Santiago on Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro, in the Lastarria neighbourhood. Its facilities include lifts and ramps for visitors with reduced mobility. Educational activities are organised in three lines: Museo + Comunidad, Museo + Inclusión and Museo + Escuela.

The museum offers audio recordings of exhibitions and artistic discussions through an online platform, allowing visitors to revisit events beyond their physical visit. This digital archive makes artistic conversations accessible outside the gallery walls.