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The Magallanes museum route

Palaces from the wool boom, replicas of Magellan’s ship, and the most beautiful cemetery on the continent.

Punta Arenas can be read in a single day: the Palacio Braun Menéndez, with its original furnishings intact; the Museo Salesiano, with its Selk’nam and Yagán ethnography; the Museo Nao Victoria, with its replicas of historic ships; and the Cementerio Municipal, which you explore like an open-air museum.

Together they tell the same story from four angles: how a corrugated-tin town at the end of the world grew rich on wool and passing ships.

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