National Fine Arts Museum , Santiago

Chilean architect Emilio Jequier designed this beautiful palace in 1910 to replicate the Petit Palais of Paris. The Fine Arts Museum, which had been founded in 1880 and located in another building moved to the palace once it opened. It is one of the most important fine arts museums in the country and the oldest in South America. Inside the stately interior, visitors find around 2,700 paintings by foreign and Chilean artists, as well as interesting reproductions, sketches and sculptures. The museum also houses a large slide collection and an art library with more than 15,000 volumes, documents and archives. Entry is free on Sundays.