Escuela de Artes y Oficios, Technical education center in Estación Central, Chile.

The Escuela de Artes y Oficios is a two-storey building in Estación Central, south of the Quinta Normal and north of Avenida Ecuador. Its long rectangular facade has a white lower level over a reddish-brown base, slender wooden columns along both storeys, and an upper walkway with a wooden railing. Tall dark-framed windows alternate with open doorways below; trees and paved ground stand in front.

Manuel Bulnes founded this school in 1849 as one of the first steps to develop technical training in Chile. This founding marked the beginning of structured education in crafts and industrial arts throughout the country.

The school's hymn was written by Próspero Bisquertt, a composer and painter who won the National Art Prize in 1954. Former students held annual reunions for over a hundred years, until the mid-2000s. Among the alumni are writer Fernando Santiván and six students who died at the Battle of Iquique.

The 1886 building stands south of the Quinta Normal park and north of Avenida Ecuador, in Estación Central; the Estación Central metro station serves the area. The two-storey facade with its white walls, reddish-brown base and wooden columns along both levels faces trees and paved ground, so the exterior can be viewed from the street.

Six former students died at the Battle of Iquique in 1879: Ignacio Serrano, Vicente Mutilla, Dionisio Manterola, José Gutiérrez, Francisco Santiago and Juan Agustín Torres. Another alumnus, Luis Caballero Mejías, invented precooked corn flour. Graduates held annual reunions for over a century, until the mid-2000s.