This is a HUGE private museum, mostly funded by Carlos Cardoen, the arms dealer. I am going to let all of you look this guy up on your own, because his story is told in so many websites, and each has a different spin on the facts. Let's just say that this dude has some CASH and a definite thing for collecting! He is very infamous for his arms dealing to Iraq. I am making this statement only- I do not know the whole story, but you can look it up, as I said, for yourselves.
For the record- I pretty much hate museums. Ask Tina, my daughter. The poor thing tries her best to educate me with trips to these opportunities for higher learning and awareness, but to no avail. But I loved this museum. I have never seen so much (insert expletive) in my life, and it was everything, not just paintings or sculpture or whatever. This is the most amazing array of really priceless STUFF I have ever seen. I was just speechless, which pretty much never happens to me unless I've had a root canal or am dead asleep.
http://www.museocolchagua.cl/
Gotta see this place if you come.
Next to this museum is his hotel, casino, spa and restaurant complex. I can only say complex because it is massive. We tried to stay at the hotel, but we just couldn't, in our mind, justify the $270.00 American dollars they wanted a night, on top of the pricey dinner and the casino money they would have scammed off of us, because I am a loser and Richard just wasn't "feeling it". He's the lucky one in this family, and I don't mean because he found me- he always wins a bit at a casino.
Please, if you have the time, go to the site for the museum and the Santa Cruz Hotel. Now that we are back, the listing rate for the hotel is lower online, but still very expensive. They tried to scam us, came down from the first price to $171.00, (for some reason, the one dollar) but we still said no. We stayed at a comfortable hostel, D'VD Hostel, and it had a great bed and a much lower price. Heck, I just wanted a bed at the arms dealers hotel, I didn't want to buy another piece of ancient artifact for the guy!
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