Museums in Patagonia show the challenges that locals encountered over the centuries to make this faraway region their home.

Founded in 18893 by Salesian missionaries, Museo Salesiano Mayorino Borgantello boasts a comprehensive collection of ethnological artifacts of the region's original dwellers as well as samples of the flora and fauna. The traveler will admire the delicate arts and crafts works done in the mission by natives and missionaries. You will find fossils and petrified objects.  

Museo del Recuerdo gives to the traveler of today how hard it was to travel in the past. The struggle to tame an indifferent landscape can be traced through the photographs and the exhibit of the equipment and tools used by the pionners in the 19th century. The Museum is part of Instituto Patagonia, a center and archive devoted to scientific and technological research.

Housed in the magnificent building Braun-Menendez, the Historical Museum Magallanes holds an extensive collection of objects, photographs and texts that follow the story of the people in the southern city of Punta Arenas.