The Museum of the MIST
A paper museum dedicated to the ruins that the official historical narrative sought to conceal in Tierra del Fuego (Chile).
A very surprising Novel, whose form, though disconcerting at first glance, very quickly enchants and eventually captivates.
CANDAYA, 2026, 332 p. LITERARY FICTION, Novel with illustrations, Spanish (Chile)
This novel imagines an impossible museum at the southernmost tip of the Americas. Built towards the end of the Second World War and destroyed by a mysterious fire in 2014, The Museum of the Mist brought together the remnants of a history that Chile and Argentina have preferred to view from afar: the colonisation of Tierra del Fuego, the Selk’nam genocide, livestock farming, the arrival of Nazi criminals in southern Chile and the continuation of the horror during the dictatorship.
Drawing on an incomplete catalogue, salvaged artefacts, curatorial files, documents, missing images, testimonies and rumours, El museo de la bruma takes the form of a partial exhibition. It is a museum on paper, a phantasmagorical archive and an imaginary investigation that delves into those zones where memory and invention intermingle.
Through a radical structure and with a rare political power, Galo Ghigliotto constructs a work about impunity and the ways in which a nation fabricates, displays and conceals its ruins. Award-winning in Chile and widely read by critics and academics, The museum of Mist confirms that literature can open a space where official history has left only silence.
Original Title
El museo de la bruma
Territory of representation
World Wide
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