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Quipu, Ica culture,
c. 1200-1300 AD, Museo Amano, Lima.
Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Luxury
Lima Tours & Travel.
Inka's Empire Tours
considers essential the Gold of Peru
Museum; the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and
History; the Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum; and
the Pachacamac archaeological site
Excursions to these museums appear in
Lima: 3
Nights. Other museums of note are the
Museo Amano, which displays Chancay objects of the central coast
and the Museo de Arte Colonial Pedro de Osma, which exhibits
colonial art of the 17th-19th centuries. Details appear below. Please confirm directly with each museum for its current days and hours of operation.
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Mochica gold figure
with sacrifical knife and head, Gold Museum of Peru, Lima.
Photo: Mylene
d'Auriol Stoessel. Luxury Lima Tours & Travel.
Gold of Peru Museum
Av. Alonso de Molina 1100, Monterrico,
Surco.
435-0791
Open every
day from 12:00-19:00
At the privately-operated Gold of Peru
Museum (Museo de Oro del Peru); gold, ceramic and textile masterpieces
form the most magnificent collection of ancient Peruvian art
in the world, treasures little-known and rarely exhibited outside
the country. Objects include monumental necklaces, funerary masks,
scepters, ceremonial cups, tumis (sacrificial knives), nose rings,
earrings and idols, all fashioned of sumptuous gold and semi-precious
stones. The downstairs vault features the gold artifacts. The
second floor gallery contains marvelous ceramics and textiles
and the annex gallery (behind the main building) features textiles
and feather mantos of unbelievable quality.
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A Paracas Necropolis
"manto", c. 500 BC.
Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia
del Peru.
Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Luxury
Lima Tours & Travel.
National
Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History
Plaza Bolivar s/n [no street number], Pueblo Libre.
463-5070
Open Tuesday
to Sunday from 09:30-17:30
The National Museum of Archaeology,
Anthropology and History (Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia
e Historia del Peru) exhibits evidence of all ancient cultures
in the Peruvian civilization in a chronological and didactic
way, the most interesting being the collections of Chavin, Paracas,
Nazca, Mochica, Huari, Chimu and Inca. Masterpieces include the
Raimondi Estele and the Tello Obelisco. Paintings, objects, documents
and relics of the colony, emancipation, independence process
and republican period are exhibited in the adjoining manor house,
which was the residence of the viceroys Pezuela and La Serna
and Peru's liberators Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar.
Mochica "huaco"
depicting a reed boat, Museo Larco, Lima.
Photo:
Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel.
Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum
Av. Bolivar 1515, Pueblo Libre.
461-1312
Open Monday
to Saturday from 09:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00
The Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological
Museum (Museo Arqueolegico Rafael Larco Herrera), founded in
1926, is the world's largest private collection of pre-Columbian
art; with an astonishing array of gold, silver, semi-precious
stones and textiles. The collection's predominant strength is
in Mochica ceramics, from the north coast of Peru, of which the
erotic ones are the most famous. Their notariety ought not to
obscure the fact that the museum presents a complete view of
the cultural development of ancient Peru through a selection
of its 45,000 pieces, housed in a colonial building of the 18th
century.
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House of the Virgins
of the Sun, c. 1500 AD, Pachacamac.
Photo: Mylene d'Auriol Stoessel. Luxury
Lima Tours & Travel.
Pachacamac
Archaeological Site
Pachacamac is the most reknowned pre-Inca
and Inca pilgrimage site of the coast. Dating back to 200 AD.,
it was originally devoted to the worship of the earth god Pachacamac:
"he who sustains or gives life to the universe". Over
the centuries, temples for other gods of the coastal cultures
were erected throughout this immense ceremonial center. When
the Incas arrived, they respected the religion of the conquered
peoples but, at the same time, built their temple of the Sun
and the Moon, and the Ajlla Huasi (House of the Virgins of the
Sun).
Here, you will see the weathered adobe
temples of Peru's ancient cultures, dominated by the Inca's temple
of the Sun and the Moon, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Looking
landward, observe one of the verdant oases that were home to
ancient coastal civilizations. Such areas occur in river valleys
in the vast desert along the coast. Visit the site museum, which
features ceramics, textiles and a wooden idol found in the original
temple of Pachacamac. Such idols infuriated the Spaniards, who
had expected to find gold.
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Museo Amano, Lima.
Photo: Mylene
d'Auriol Stoessel. Luxury Lima Tours & Travel.
Museo Amano
Amano Museum
Calle
Retiro 160, Miraflores.
441-2909
Open Monday
to Friday (prior appointment)
This private collection features cultural
and archaeological artifacts from the central coast, such as
unique Chancay textiles and pottery.
Museo de Arte Colonial Pedro de Osma
Pedro de Osma Colonial Art Museum
Av. Pedro de Osma 421, Barranco.
467-0915
Open (by
appointment)
This private collection of colonial
art features silverware, paintings, sculptures and furniture
from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Museo de la Nacion
National Museum
Av.
Javier Prado Este 2465, San Borja.
476-9875
Open Tuesday
to Sunday from 10:00-17:30
This State-run archaeological and ethnographic
museum exhibits permanent collections. It has a room for temporary
exhibits devoted to contemporary art.
Museo de Arte de Lima
Lima Art Museum
Paseo
Colon 125, Lima.
423-4732
Open Tuesday
to Sunday from 09:00-19:00
This private art museum exhibits pre-Hispanic
objects and colonial, republican and modern art. The museum looks
onto a park filled with contemporary sculptures, a cinema, library,
a preservation and restoration center and classrooms where some
70 courses are taught daily (folk dancing, music, painting, arts
and crafts, martial arts, public speaking and poetry, etc.).
Museo de Arte Popular del Instituto Riva Agüero
de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Catholic University's Popular Art Museum
at Riva Agüero Institute
Jr. Camana 459,
Lima.
427-9275
Open Monday
to Friday from 13:00-20:00 and Saturdays from 09:00-13:00
This university-run museum houses a
collection of ancient and modern folk art, including masks from
every region of the country, carved gourds, Ayacucho and Cuzco
pottery, and woven baskets from the North.
Museo Taurino de la Plaza de Acho
Plaza de Acho Bull Ring
Hualgayoc
332, Rimac.
482-3360
Open Monday
to Friday from 09:00-16:00
Semi State-run, this museum located
at Latin America's oldest bullring features photographs, costumes,
weapons and other implements used by bullfighters.
Museo del Banco Central de Reserva
Central Reserve Bank Museum
Jr.
Ucayali 125, Lima.
427-6250
Open Tuesday
to Friday from 10:00-16:00 and Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00-12:45
This State museum houses an exhibition
of nineteenth and twentieth century paintings in the old Central
Bank vault, a complete collection of coins minted since the sixteenth
century and pottery and metal objects crafted by the Vicus culture
from the Seminario collection.
Museo de la Catedral de Lima
Lima Cathedral Museum
Plaza
Mayor.
427-5980
Open every
day from 10:00-13:00 and from 15:00-18:00
The religious art museum in Lima's Cathedral,
which overlooks the main square, houses paintings, wood carvings
and religious objects from the Vice-Royalty. The museum houses
the tomb of Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
Museo Numismatico del Banco Wiese
Banco Wiese Numismatic Museum
Jr.
Cuzco 245, Lima.
428-6000 extension 2009
Open Monday
to Friday from 10:00-17:00
This museum, housed by a private bank
in downtown Lima, exhibits a major coin and gold collection belonging
to the Cohen family.
Museo de la Cultura Peruana
Museum of Peruvian Culture
Av.
Alfonso Ugarte 650, Lima.
423-5892
Open Monday
to Saturday from 10:00-17:00
This State-run collection exhibits folk
art dating from pre-Hispanic times to today.
Museo de Historia Natural Javier Prado de la Universidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
San Marcos University's Natural History
Museum
Av. Arenales 1256, Jesus Maria.
471-0117
Open Monday
to Saturday from 09:00-13:00
One of the oldest universities on the
continent, San Marcos houses a collection of Peruvian animals
and medicinal and industrially-used plants. There is currently
a collection of sea birds.
Other Museums
There are an additional 37 on-site,
historical-archaeological, specialized and religious museums
in Lima.
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