Villa Grimaldi, Santiago, Chile

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

Opening hours

Sunday	10:00 – 18:00
Monday	10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday	10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday	10:00 – 18:00
Thursday	10:00 – 18:00
Friday	10:00 – 18:00
Saturday	10:00 – 18:00

Checked 2026-09-06 · Source

Today: Open today, 10:00 – 18:00
Visit duration: 1 hr 30 min
Accessibility: Not recorded
Price: Not recorded
Standing: Must see · Heritage site
Rank: Rank 52 of 12,954

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Place details and sources

This place is a Museum. It carries the Historical Monument of Chile heritage designation. It is run by Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional.

Official name: Parque por La Paz Villa Grimaldi OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Official website: www.villagrimaldi.cl Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Telephone: +56222925229 OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Type of place: Museum OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Heritage designation: Historical Monument of Chile Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Access: Open access OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Architect: Luis Santibáñez Ibarra, Ana Torrealba, José Luis Guajardo OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Operator: Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Operator: Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Wikipedia article: Villa Grimaldi Wikipedia · Checked 2026-09-09

Villa Grimaldi is a site museum and peace park in Peñalolén, Santiago. After the 1973 military coup, Chile’s National Intelligence Directorate, DINA, took control of the former estate and operated it as Cuartel Terranova. The institution’s history records partial operation from late 1973 and official installation in 1974. It became a secret center for abduction, torture and forced disappearance during the dictatorship. The museum exists through the work of survivors, relatives, neighbours and human-rights organisations that resisted the destruction and erasure of the site.

The current visitor page lists public access every day from 10:00 to 18:00. Free audio guides are available from 10:00 to 17:00. Reserved educational visits run Tuesday through Friday between 10:00 and 15:00 for groups of eight to forty-five participants. The operator does not publish a current admission price on that page, so confirm any access conditions when booking a group visit. Villa Grimaldi is at Avenida José Arrieta 8401, Peñalolén. The public telephone is +56 9 9327 8163. Approach the museum as a place of testimony, remembrance and human-rights education, and allow the memorial setting and accounts of survivors to determine the pace of the visit.