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This Room Will Be Dedicated To The Rescue Of The 33 Miners From The San Jose Mine Last Year
Santa Cruz, Colchagua Valley, Chile – At the Colchagua Museum in Santa Cruz- located at the VI Region in Chile, which belongs to the Cardoen Foundation, lots of finalising details are taking place to open the new “Room of the Big Rescue”. This room will be dedicated to the heroic deed of rescuing the 33 miners who were trapped for two months at the San Jose Mine last year, an event that kept the whole world attached to their TV screens.
Those in charge of the project – managed by the businessman Carlos Cardoen have been able to find the backing of the institutions, companies and families, and the people that have lived through this difficult episode in their lives. The Museum will house important testimonial pieces of those moments lived at Camp Hope (Campamento Esperanza), their rescue plans, their searches through bores, the communication efforts, the three plans drafted to take the 33 to the surface from the bottom of the mine, the modern technologies applied and also the impact that this event cause in the world’s sensitivity. 1.300 millions spectators in all the planet have followed this event closely and were overjoyed by its’ happy ending on October 13th, 2010.
Elements obtained from the San Jose Mine will offer the visitor an idea of the work routines in the accidental mine.
Three of the trapped miners have helped substantially to put this exhibition together, one of who, Daniel Herrera (27), was born at Marchihue in Colchagua.
The opening ceremony of the “Room of the Big Rescue” will be on October 1st, 2011, with President Piñera, government authorities, the miners and those who have rescued them.
For more information please visit www.museocolchagua.cl
Museo de Colchagua is owned by Fundacion Cardoen and gathers the biggest private collection in the country, from the beginning of life some 400 million years ago, to the modernity of the 20th Century. Tour collections of Paleontological amber, one of the most complete of its kind in the world, along with exhibitions of Prehistoric and Pre Columbian pieces, the Spanish Conquest, Colonisation and Independence of Chile and Modernity, and pavilions on Huaso gear, antique arms, carriages, antique automobiles and Jewells of the Andes.
Almacruz manages Museo de Colchagua, as well as the Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, that is located next door of the Museum, Viña Santa Cruz, 20 miles away from the hotel and the Museum, and Hotel Galerias in downtown Santiago. For more information please visit www.almacruz.cl
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