Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende

In March 1971, a meeting of intellectuals called "Operation Truth" took place in Santiago. Among others, came José María Moreno Galván from Spain and Carlo Levi from Italy. Moreno Galván is the one who thinks of creating an international museum in support of the government presided over by Salvador Allende. Between 1971 and 1973 more than 400 works are received, including paintings, engravings, sculptures, drawings, tapestries and photographs. The works that make up the Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum are a product of the solidarity vocation that inspired artists from all over the world, who donated their works, expressing in this way their support for the social and political project that was developed in Chile during the government by Salvador Allende. This factor is decisive, and translates into a wide variety of artistic styles, aesthetic discourses and expressive supports, giving rise to a collection composed of some 500 works, which reached to be exhibited twice before the coup d'état of 1973. The recovery of democracy in Chile, allowed the works coming from the Museums abroad to join the original fund, making possible in September 1991, the reopening of the Museum of Solidarity Salvador Allende that took place in the Palace of Fine Arts .