Artequin

We stumbled upon this museum on accident, and I'm so glad we did.  It is right by the train museum I mentioned in the last post.  We were quite intrigued by the unique building, and even though we had no idea what it was, we walked over.  Basically it's a hands on art museum for kids.  It's not really a children's museum per se, but kind of similar (Santiago does have a children's museum, but we haven't been to it yet).  The building itself was apparently constructed in Paris and shipped to Santiago many years ago.  It's a huge steel and glass structure that is all open concept.  It's all interactive art aimed at kids.  Hopefully the pictures will help explain.

The outside of Artequin

The adorable little cafe outside of Artequin.  It was about as big as a walk-in closet.

Sadie in scream.

Estamos pintando (that's how you say coloring) with the Mona Lisa looking at us from a distance.

The ceiling.  There was what looked like a superhero of some kind hanging from the top.

Sadie is at the coloring table, but you can see across from her there is an exhibit that has giant rubber bands that you can stretch across pegs to make different shapes.  Then, to the right you can see a bunch of mirrors in the black space.  They are actually rear view mirrors that you can go inside and play with and reflect different colored lights, etc with.

More of the building (this was taken from the inside looking out toward the front).

Second floor.