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MUSEUMS LIMA
This tour is comprises the two most impressive museums in Lima. Let us guide you along our shared history of civilizations while you marvel at the riches of ancient rulers, the mummified remains of those who went before us, one of the world´s most important textile collections, the famous gallery of erotic ceramics, and more!…
Tour Itinerary
Larco Museum
The Larco Museum, housed in an 18th century vice-royal mansion constructed atop a 7th century pre-Columbian pyramid surrounded by gardens, was founded to address the need to protect archaeological relics from being sold in the private markets abroad. Fittingly, it opened its doors on Independence Day 1926. As one of the most prestigious institutions on conservation and restoration of priceless Peruvian masterpieces, its pieces, worldwide icons of Pre-Columbian art, are lent to museums and cultural centers around the world.
Highlights
- Travel through 3,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian cultures, including the Moche, Nazca, Chavín, Huari, Chimú, and Inca.
- See the finest jewelry used by notable rulers of Ancient Peru in the Gold and Silver collection
- Experience one of its most Peru´s most visited attractions- the Gallery of Erotic Pottery
- One of the world´s few museums permitting visitors to enter the storage area housing 45,000 classified archaeological objects
National Museum for Archeology, Anthropology, and History
This is the only museum in Peru that permanently displays the complete history from Peru´s first inhabitants and cultures through the Conquest, Colony and Republic. This meeting place of history is housed in the colonial villa where the vice-king, the Liberator Simon Bolivar and the Generalissimo Don Jose on San Martín all lived. The museum dedicates itself to displaying its vast and varied collections (including ceramics, textiles, precious metals, organic materials, and stone) in an interactive way.
Highlights
- Discover one of the world´s most important textile collections, most notably the incomparable masterpieces of Paracas
- Relive the shared past of human civilization in the ancient native technologies gallery.
- Marvel at the surprising stone Raimondi Stela and Tello Obelisk
- Find a wealth of human remains from the stone age 10,000 years before Christ through the Inca Period- including funeral bundles in various stages of unwrapping and skeletons (15,500 individual pieces)
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