A love of small museums can be found in our DNA. On the other side of the world, our hospitality partners in Viña Santa Rita operate a good example of hospitality and history in elegant harmony.
Set within one of Chile’s great wine estates, Museo Andino at Viña Santa Rita cares for an extraordinary collection of archaeological and ethnographic objects, offering visitors a vivid encounter with the cultures of the Andes and the wider pre-Columbian world. It is a place where craft, belief, landscape and memory meet; where a vessel, textile or carved figure can collapse centuries and make the distant past feel intensely human.
That spirit feels familiar to us at the Little Museum of Dublin. Our own work is built on the idea that objects carry stories, and that generous hospitality is not an extra, but part of the meaning of a visit. Santa Rita’s role as our exclusive hospitality partner therefore feels much more than a practical arrangement. It is a cultural friendship: a glass raised between two institutions that believe in welcome, storytelling and the civilised pleasure of bringing people together.
The ties between Chile and Ireland are older and richer than many visitors realise. The name of Bernardo O’Higgins, son of an Irish-born father and one of the founding figures of modern Chile, remains a powerful symbol of that shared history. Across oceans and generations, Irish and Chilean stories have met in politics, migration, literature, music and conviviality. Both countries know something about independence, memory, exile, poetry, humour and rain.
We are proud to celebrate Santa Rita not simply as a distinguished Chilean winery, but as a guardian of culture. Through Museo Andino, Santa Rita shows that great hospitality begins with respect: for place, for people, for ancestry and for stories that deserve to be preserved, shared and enjoyed. It is a partnership we value deeply, and one we hope will continue to grow in warmth, imagination and friendship.
