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Museos - Museums: See the pre-Columbian Art at Museo de la Nacion
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  • Erotic Art in Museo de la Nacion - Lima
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    Before venturing into the Andes to see Cusco, Mach Picchu and the Sacred Valley, a visit to the Museo de la Nacion will help put everything in context. Before I came to Peru, I was only vaguely aware that the Incas were the LAST of several sophisticated civilizations who were incredibly good artists and engineers. The art they left behind is not just a cultural curiosity, but is truly beautiful in its own right. Of course, most people are aware of the erotic art, and the Museo de la Nacion has a few examples of the type. It also has mumified Inca heads and examples of pottery from several civilizations. Unfortunately, it also has several exhibits that are replicas and not original, which is disappointing after visiting such places as the Louvre, Museii Vaticani or Taipei's National Palace Museum.

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    Museos - Museums: The Gold Museum
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    Owned by a friend of my husband's stepmother, so we got in for free, with a nice tour by Ivan. Admission is usually quite high - S./30 (about $10) according to our guide book. The Gold Museum is a large collection of mostly pre-Inca gold pieces from around Peru. Formerly set up to dazzle (i.e. all the gold together), since the death of its collector (Miguel Mujica Gallo) it is now organized more archeologically, grouped according to civilization. In most instances, gold wasn't valued too highly by these civilizations in the way it was by the Spaniards. Exotic Amazonian feathers were more highly treasured than abundant, utilitarian gold. Of course, the main draw now, though, is the gold pieces such as the Tumi in the picture. These were sharp blades used for brain surgery by coastal pre-Incan peoples, often with a decorated handle. Only one window in the whole museum actually contains Inca gold - which was removed by the conquistadors and mostly lost to the world. Also on-site is a vast weapons collection (which you must pass through to get to the gold) and a big game trophy head collection.

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  • Directions: Take a cab - it's out of the way

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    Museos - Museums: Museo de la Nacion
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  • This is the Peruvian National Museum. You won't see any contemporary history here, it is too controversial at this time. This is an exposition about prehispanic societies. The history begins in the Archaic period and ends with the Inca Empire. There are temporal expositions about paintings, folk art, handcrafts, photography, etc.

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    Museos - Museums: Huallamarca
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    Archeological site, also known under the name “Pan de Azúcar” (Bread of sugar). Mummies and other findings are to be seen in the museum at the location. Huallamarca seems to have been abandoned in the sieclo XV or before that. There is a small but nice museum at the entrance. In the museum there is a mummie with a hair that is more than 2 m long. See also a few pictures from this impressing adobe construction in the travellog.

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    Museos - Museums: Museo de Antropología, Arqueología e Historia
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  • If you are short on time visiting Lima, the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arqueología e Historia is a must! In the museum there is a closely description of Peru and its human history. Contains unvaluables objects from all the peruvian cultures. See also a few pictures in the travellog.

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  • Phone: 63-5070
  • Other Contact: Open 9 AM - 5 PM tue-sun

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    Museos - Museums: Museo de Oro (Gold museum)
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    It´s worth one´s salt to visit this museum. As you maybe know, there´s not too much gold that stayed in southamerica, the most of it has been brought directly to Spain where the reyes of Spain lived more than 200 years only from the gold of southamerica. But there´s still a lot in Peru, you can find it e.g as well in the cathedral of Lima and in that museum you find a lot of beautiful works from the times of the Incas and other older cultures. Besides you find a big exposition of weappons and arms, a lot of ceramics, parts of it typical erotic art of the Chimu culture (there is also a special museum of erotic ceramic arts in Lima = Museo Rafael Larco Herrera) and as well typical historical clothes.

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  • Phone: +51 1 435-0791
  • Directions: eastern part of the city, just search for a Combi or Micro to Monterrico /Surco

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    Museos - Museums: Museo de la Nación (National Museum)
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  • The museum shows the Peruvian history from Nazca to Macchu Picchu, from Moche to Inca. It's very complete and the exhibitions are pretty well organised. There´s been also a special exposition about the "Señor de Sipan". Today there´s only a copy of it in the museum because the originals are in a new museum in Cajamarca near to the place where the graves were found.

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  • Phone: +51 1 476-9875
  • Directions: district of San Borja, near to the Avenida Arequipa (between Lima centro and Miraflores)

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    Museos - Museums: Museo Oro del Peru (The Gold Museum of Peru)
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    If you have seen the Antropological Museum, this is the second in dignity. Privat collections of Miguel Mujica Gallo. Numerous objects of gold or gold/copper/silver. Famous collections of pre-spanish findings, mostly from Chimu-Lambayeque and also bought piece by piece from collectors. In the same building as the Gold Museum you also will find a famous museum with arms (hand arms) and uniforms.

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  • Phone: 35-2917
  • Directions: Take a cab!

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    Museos - Museums: Museo Rafael Larco Herrera
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    This museum contains 45000 findings of ceramics. They are placed side by side sorted by their type, and the great number of ceramics give an impressing view. It is only time that will limit your possibilities to study the ceramics. If you got the time after the Antropological Museum - which also is located in Pueblo Libre - you must sneak in here! In the bottom floor there is a famous collecion of erotic ceramics ("Huacos Eróticos")

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  • Directions: Pueblo Libre

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    Museos - Museums: Museo de la Nacion
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  • This impressing museum is worth a visit. Often there is special exhibitions of great interest. The permanent part of the museum gives a good picture of the history of Peru and the people that live and have been living there. The museum is also a common place for music concerts. The building served earlier as Ministerio de Pesca (The Fishing ministry). But the declining evaluation of the fishing industry gave this beautiful building another appropriate use.

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