Sustainability Report N°4 Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso. Year 2025

The Museum Sustainability Reports are a clear example of the institution’s growth and commitment to environmental matters. Through its team, the contribution of its partners, and the ever-necessary coordination with other relevant regional actors, the Museum has decided to make steady progress on facilitating access to knowledge and tools for the inhabitants of the Valparaíso region and its visitors, in order to raise awareness, reflect, and address the global crisis. We expect to jointly promote different actions aimed at empowering citizens to protect and conserve diverse ecosystems, vital for human life on the planet.
In this fourth edition of the Memoria del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso (sustainability report), significant advances in areas such as environment, circular economy, culture, and social perspective are reported. These advances enabled us to achieve the “Excellence” level of Oficina Verde, an accreditation program led by the Ministry of the Environment, which recognized our Museum as the first one in Chile to contribute to the reduction of organizational carbon footprint and—in turn—to the mitigation of the negative impacts arising from its administrative and technical processes.
For this public institution, bringing this type of information closer to the community is an essential role. Education and research on natural heritage are core elements of the Museum’s Vision and Mission, along with efforts to mitigate the impacts upon it, most of which stem from human activity, such as biodiversity loss, increased pollution, and climate change. In addition, we are committed to being a coherent space that engages with problems and solutions in a spirit of service to the community. Consistent with that approach, we aim to face together the great challenges associated with building societies with a socio-environmental justice perspective, to advance toward sustainable development.
In this regard, we firmly believe that our sustainability reports are a relevant channel to share our commitments and convictions, with the purpose of encouraging other institutions to adopt more environmentally friendly practices aimed at establishing a lasting, collectively built environmental and sustainable culture.