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This year we are commemorating the first centennial of Eduardo Frei Montalva, reason why we are exhibiting the photograph of the cabinet of Juan Antonio Rios, in which our former president was Minister of Public Works. A document listing his ministerial labor is also in exhibition. [Read complete article]

This month we are remembering the birth of Gabriela Mistral and the literary facet of our former president. Throughout this month we will exhibit three of the seventeen books written by Eduardo Frei Montalva and a letter of the poet who wrote the prologue of “La Política y le Espíritu” (Politics and Spirit). [Read complete article]

The bust of Bernardo O’Higgins was a prize given by the political journalists during the time Eduardo Frei Montalva was elected Senator of the Republic. This prize will be exhibited during this month as a remembrance of his outstanding senatorial labor in March 1949. [Read complete article]

During January -due to the centennial of Eduardo Frei Montalva- his house nowadays a museum, will exhibit his thesis, which later became a book. His thesis and some related-documents and pictures will be exposed, as a remembrance of his years in college. [Read complete article]

More than 700 academic authorities from the main universities of our country were invited during this year by the Eduardo Frei Montalva’s House Museum, not only with the purpose of generating working relationships, but also offering research and teaching support in areas related to humanities and social sciences. [Read complete article]

 Throughout December, part of Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva’s 250-vinyl disc collection goes on display for the first time in a special exhibition that unveils the former president’s musical tastes. Among the collection, “La Pérgola de las Flores” and “Canciones de la Patria Joven” (1964) are highlighted discs. Open from Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 to 18:00 hrs, at 683 Hindenburg Street, Providencia. [Read complete article]

During this month, due to the birth anniversary of Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher who was born on November the 18th, of great influence on Eduardo Frei Montalva’s Christian social thinking, the House Museum will exhibit a book with a dedication, an autographed portrait and letters which show us how close both intellectuals were. [Read complete article]

The original copy No. 1,000,000 of one of the best-sellers of the ‘50s – a work newly turned into a prime time drama – will be open for public view in a special exhibition through October at Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva. The copy of the book by Jorge Inostrosa was dedicated to the former president and has been kept in his house for 45 years. [Read complete article]

Throughout the month of the Bicentennial and in commemoration of the 46th anniversary of Eduardo Frei Montalva’s inauguration as President of Chile, our Museum will display the oath of office taken by the former president and the presidential medal; objects that recall that epoch. [Read complete article]

During the whole month of August, our Mouseum will put on display silver and copper trays and an ashtray, special presents from Centros de Madres (Mothers’ Centers) and Juntas de Vecinos (Neighborhood Residents’ Committees) representatives, to Eduardo Frei Montalva, in gratitude for the creation of such organizations, 42 years ago. [Read complete article]

A riding crop, a manto de huaso (a piece of clothing similar to a poncho), a copper tray, and a pair of spurs -which are typical Chilean objects – are to be exhibited throughout the month due to “Farmer’s Day”, celebrated on July 28th, the exact same day when the Land Reform Law was published. [Read complete article]

As part of its bicentenary project, Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva has prepared three digitalized audiovisual materials with unpublished images of Eduardo Frei Montalva in different stages of his life; without any doubt, a precious historical record that will support the educational world as much as the memory of that epoch. [Read complete article]