This was a wonderful museum featuring the most extensive collection of pre-Columbian artifacts from the region including pottery. The original stone monolith from Easter Island is on display.

Nice museum, lighting over Moan could have been better. Good pre-columbian pottery collection with some interesting hisory on surrounding area archelogical finds. Would be nice if there was some English translation or brochures available regarding the exhibits. Spansh only.

detailed showcases of prehistoric times in the region. The only Moai outside Eater Island is on display here

It's particularly helpful to have a spanish speaker with you for this museum as there are no translations on the labels and boards, but it does have an excellent selection of early pottery and artifacts and some good reconstructions, as well as an impressive Maui. Well laid out, fascinating.

Incredible. The museum shows evidence of Diaguita culture, way of life, work and travel. In it remains the one of two sculptures of Moaí from Eastern Island (the other is in London, UK). It's takes one hour and a half to view everything.

We went to see the maoi and were out in 10minutes. It is a bit small, but it is cheap to enter (600pesos) Possibly would have been easier if there were English translations somewhere :)

I liked this museum specially because it has a real mummy and other ancient pieces. It is not a modern museum but still with lots of valuable information.

We were going to fly to Salta, Argentina, to see the 3 mummies in their museum. Imagine our pleasant surprise to find a mummy in this nice museum. Although everything is in Spanish, the museum tells some fascinating stories and has a wide range of interesting artifacts. A further highlight is an Easter Island statue - your best chance to... More

Worked on a project out of this museum for several months (though our actual lab facilities were set up in the Videla Museum several blocks away). They are as dedicated and resourceful a group of anthropologists as you will find, and their pottery reconstructionists are second-to-none. Don't miss their Molle and Diaguita artifacts, especially the seal-skin raft and 'goggles' pottery...or... More