The Palace Vergara, an area of 3000 square meters was built in 1910 by architect Ettore Vergara Petri Santini on the site of the family mansion, destroyed by a terrible earthquake on August 16, 1906. This Palace is the family home of josé Francisco Vergara, who founded viña del Mar. The prototype of the Palace was Italian Villa in Venetian Gothic style.

In this Palace lived the daughter of josé Francisco Vergara Echevers - Blanca Errazuriz Vergara Alvarez. Dona Blanca was married to Guillermo Errazuriz and had five children: Hugh, William, white, Manuela and Amalia. Dona Blanca Errazuriz Vergara Alvarez was specially invited the most famous people of that time and took them on the first floor in the halls of the Palace, which currently houses a Museum. Most of the furniture of different styles was bought in Europe.

Subsequently many misfortunes befell the family Vergara. Dona Blanca spent the last years of his life in one of the parts of the Palace Vergara, all alone. She donated 60 works by prominent European artists in the Museum's collection, opened at the Palace.

The last person who lived in the Palace Vergara was Amalia Errazuriz Vergara, who died shortly after the Park and Palace Vergara became the property of the municipality, and the Palace Vergara became the Museum of fine arts (1941).

At the Palace there are beautiful lawns and gardens with exotic plants brought from Asia, Australia and California. The first floor of the Palace is the Museum of fine arts, and on the upper floors now themed workshops, the concerts of the Philharmonic, and a School of fine arts.

At the entrance to the Park you can see sculptures, including a bust of Gabriella Mistral - known Chilean poet, diplomat and educator, one of the leading figures in Chilean literature and the first woman in Latin America to be awarded the Nobel prize. The bust was donated to the Museum by the sculptor Nina of Anguita.