It is considered a historical milestone in the way of thinking about museums in Latin America.
It took place between May 20 and 31, 1972 under the direction of the Uruguayan astronomer Héctor Fernández Guido, during the Santiago Conference, organized by UNESCO, and convened various museums and institutions such as the Organization of American States, the Museo de La Plata of Argentina, the National Museum of Art of Bolivia, Instituto do Patrimonio Histórico e Artístico Nacional MEC of Brazil, the Regional Museum of the Catholic University of the North, the Directorate of Primary and Normal Education, the Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna Museum, the National Center of Museology, the Museo de La Serena, National Directorate of Tourism, the National Library and the National Museum of Natural History of Chile, National Museum of Costa Rica, Colombian Institute of Culture (Colombia), Museo Banco Central del Ecuador, the General Directorate of Culture of El Salvador, and l Institute of Anthropology and History of Guatemala, the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico, the Directorate of National Historical Heritage of Panama, the Center for Conservation of Cultural Heritage of the Nation of Peru and the Surveyor Germán Barbato Municipal Planetarium, of Uruguay.
During the table, the social and educational role of museums in their communities was considered and the creation of the Latin American Association of Museology (ALAM) was resolved.
[5]That museums are permanent institutions at the service of society that acquire, communicate and, above all, everything, expose, for purposes of study, education, enjoyment and culture, representative testimonies of the evolution of nature and man.
[1] The resolutions of the Table had a slow adherence, hampered by the series of coups d'état in the region during the following decade, particularly the Chile, the year after the resolution.