GAM - Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral [Santiago]
type: Item
label: Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral @nl
description: theatre building in Santiago, Chile
alternative label: GAM - Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 139661
Wikidata source: Q5062803
Field: architecture
Type of information: Performance venue
Importance: Not rated
Country: Chile
City: Santiago
GPS: Point(-70.6397 -33.4391)
Web: www.gam.cl
opening date: 1972-04-03T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q117531692
Wikidata instance: Q3469910
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q183435
Carthalia ID: 3011
Note: Convention centre and office block, built as the headquarters for the third UNCTAD conference held in Santiago in 1972, named Centro Cultural Metropolitano (UNCTAD III). Opened 3 Apr 1972. After the conference, used as a cultural centre. Closed 1973 during the Pinochet regime. Later used as convention centre and Ministery of Defence. Damaged by fire in 2006. Subsequently rebuilt as a cultural centre. 2010 reopened as Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM), named in honour of the Chilean writer and diplomat, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957).
Burnt down date: 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z