JULY, 1996

A project proposal for the creation of Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva is elaborated and submitted by the museologists Consuelo Valdés Ch. and Hernán Rodríguez V. at the request of Fundación Frei. The mission of the museum would be the promotion of the personality, way of life, and political career of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, through the preservation and the appreciation of his residence and what it shelters: a testimony of both his public and family life.

APRIL, 2002

Six years later, responding to a new request made by Fundación Frei, a proposal, elaborated by the consultants Consuelo Valdés Ch. and Carmen Vergara L, is submitteded for the formulation of the draft project of Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva.

First Semester of 2004:

The consultants render a more delimited draft project to Senator Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle; a project covering the following areas: general assessment; architecture and landscaping; preventive preservation, security and restoration; documentation of collections, script and museum design; graphic design and promotional campaign; library documentation; photographic documentation of the house, its furniture and objects; audience study; educational program and management of the new institution.

The project for the transformation of the house into a museum, elaborated by the architect Teodoro Fernández, was approved by the Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (National Monument Council) in 2006. The only architectural change of importance the building underwent was the construction of a new space- annexed to the building – upon the place where the garage, the kitchen, and the service rooms used to be. This space is to hold a new reception and an audiovisual room, rest rooms and an administration office. As for the interior of the house, the use of practically all of the rooms, furniture, and objects (which remain in the context of the period between 1960 and 1970) will be kept the same.

February 2007.

Demolition of the garage and service rooms.