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The Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Museum of Memory and Human Rights) was inaugurated on 11 January 2010 by then-President Michelle Bachelet as part of Chile's Bicentennial commemorations. The museum was conceived as a state commitment to documenting and preserving memory of the human rights violations committed by the Chilean state under the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet between 11 September 1973 and 10 March 1990. President Bachelet announced the museum's construction in May 2007 and selected a winning architectural design by the Brazilian studio Estudio America in August of that year. The museum is administered by a private non-profit foundation.
The digital archive associated with the museum (Archivo Digital – MMDH) was established to provide public online access to the museum's documentary collections, making it a key resource for research on Chile's recent history.
The archive's collections document human rights violations committed during the 1973–1990 period. The base of the collections comprises documentary fonds recognized by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World Programme, specifically those from organizations stored in the Casa de la Memoria: FASIC, CODEPU (Corporación de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo), PIDEE (Fundación de Protección a la Infancia Dañada por los Estados de Emergencia), and the Teleanálisis Archives.
Holdings include oral and written testimonies, legal documents, letters, literary production, press clippings, visual and radio material, documentary films, and historical photographs. The physical Documentation Center, located in the basement of the museum building (level -2), holds documents, text files, photographic archives, iconographic materials, sound recordings, audiovisual items, and objects from the 1973–1990 period.
The archive holds extensive press clippings and audiovisual materials from the dictatorship period. The Teleanálisis Archives, one of its UNESCO-recognized collections, constitutes a significant body of underground video journalism produced in Chile during the dictatorship years. These materials are of direct relevance to media history.
The online digital archive is freely accessible at archivommdh.cl. The physical Documentation Center is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Researchers and the general public can access all documentation online or in person. Museum admission is free.