There are many different museums in every city and country: traditional historical and artistic museums or original modern and even futuristic museums. But some museums are important for the entire nation. Their collections are not for faint-hearted visitors. For example, the Museum of Remembrance and Human Rights in Santiago de Chile.

This museum was opened in 2010. And from that moment, the museum has shocked many visitors with the pain of the Chilean people between 1973 and 1990.

Its exhibits demonstrate the most flagrant and terrible violations of human rights and large-scale "cleansing of the nation". They were common under the rule of the chairman of the governing junta of Chile, the president, and dictator Augusto Pinochet. The Chilean people will never forget the forty thousand victims of his regime. And the museum is a kind of memorial to those who died or went missing.

Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet herself was a victim of Pinochet’s torture. Fortunately, she miraculously survived. In 2008, 6 years after his death, she laid the foundation stone of the museum building. And in 2010, it was opened. The purpose of its creation was to pay tribute to the victims of those years, to remember the tragic events, and to prevent these mistakes in the future.

The permanent exhibition of the museum includes instruments of torture, personal belongings of the persecuted, letters from prisoners to family members, and their numerous photographs, which are hung all over the walls. And candles are always lit in the halls of this museum.

The archives are open to everyone. Even though the museum exhibitions are frightening and depressing, they are still worth a visit!