Museo de Bellas Artes de Valparaiso (Fine Arts Museum)
This displays an important collection of paintings dating from 1893. Significant works by Chilean artists such as Valenzuela Puelma, Camino Mori, Pacheco Altamirano, Juan Francisco Gonzalez, Pedro Lira and Cosme San Martín are on show; and works by Europeans of the standing of Rousseau, Boudin, or the Dutchman Jengkine embellish its halls, built in 1916.

The museum, declared a National Monument in 1979, is housed in the beautiful Baburizza palace, an art nouveau style edifice, built in 1916 on designs by architects Renato Schiavon and Arnaldo Barison. It is located at the Paseo Yugoslavo on Mt Alegre, accessed by the El Peral cableway.

Museo Naval y Marítimo (Naval and Maritime Museum)
This is the safe repository of items, documents relics and testimonies on the creation and development of Chile's navy from 1818 to 1880. The building - inaugurated on March 5, 1893 by the then President of the Republic Jorge Montt Alvarez- was the headquarters of the Naval School until 1967. Currently it possesses an auditorium, an archive and a historical library.

Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso (Natural History Museum)
It contains over 110,000 items, classified according to Natural Science, Archaeology and Historical Heritage. It also has a library; however, aside from its cultural value, the building it is in, the "Palacio Lyon", has its own history and was already considered to be a National Monument in 1929.

The Palace (whose frontispiece displays ornamental columns up to the wide access stairway) belonged to Santiago Lyon, who was related to the Scottish Royal Family, and was built by the German Count Carlos Von Moitke, who also directed the construction of the first Naval School.

Open-air museum
A stairway on Aldunate Street, atop Mt Bellavista, is the improvised access to an urban area where walls have become immense mural paintings, and house-fronts have become monster "canvases" flooded with color in an outburst of creative activity by a number of Chilean artists.

The picturesque "street museum" stretches along Pasaje Quimera, Pasteur, Rudolph and Ferrari streets. The murals were painted by students of Valparaiso's Catholic University Art Institute, an entity that joined forces with Valparaiso Municipality to materialize this wonderful idea.

Galería Municipal de Arte (Municipal Art Gallery)
This is located in the underground section of the "Palacio Lyon" (Condell 1550). It has brick and stone walls and vaulting.

Paseo 21 de Mayo
This is one of the city's vantage points affording a view of Valparaiso bay. To enjoy this spectacular view, one has to take the "Ascensor Artillería" or walk along Artillería and Orompello streets.

Ascensor Artillería (Mt Artillería Funicular)
This was built in 1893 to transport members of the old Naval School, and on September 22, 1998 was declared a National Monument. It is one of the most prominent funiculars in the city, serving a large sector of "Playa Ancha". Its lower station is in Plaza Wheelwright and the upper one on "Paseo 21 de Mayo", on the Artillería mountain. It belongs to the Valparaiso mechanical elevator company.

Another interesting place is "Muelle Barón" (Barón Wharf), that connects the port to the city and affords a splendid view of Valparaiso from below.