Day 20 - Dancing with the Aztecs

The day after we went to the National History Museum we took the metro back to Plaza de Armas. There we went to the Museum of Pre-Colombian Art. The first room had cave paintings and there was stuff explaining what the paintings were about. The explanations were either text or video. In the video ones there was only Spanish so we didn't bother listening to them, but in the text ones they had English translations.

There was a long pathway to the next room with more stuff about cave paintings along the walls and they had a bit talking about llamas, alpacas and two other animals in the "camelid" category. The next room started off with a video about the moon. The next thing in that room was about dark constellations. Dark constellations are areas of the sky without stars, that look like something. 

My favorite dark constellation was the celestial llama, because it has a neck that is about 3 times longer than its body. The third room started off with these things that you could smell and you had to guess what fruit it was (the tomato smelled the worst). Then it had a map of South America showing which fruits grow where. The room finished off with a dancing game, with different types of dances from Chile. I did a dance from the Aztecs (an ancient civilization, that lived in Southern/Central America).

The final room was on the second floor. The room was filled with pots, little statues, rugs and other artwork. They were divided into different regions of Chile and different time periods in history.