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 Erotic Art in Museo de la
Nacion by AKtravelers
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. Leave a Comment
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Although my ticket for this museum tour said that no photography was permitted, it turned out that photos without flash were permitted everywhere in this museum, which contained nicely arranged and well lit pottery from various eras of Peruvian native culture.
I am not particularly into in pottery, but the guide made it quite interesting and explained it clearly. Bob and I both had quite a few good pictures.
Founded in 1926, the Larco Museum showcases chronological galleries providing an excellent overview on 3000 years of development of Peruvian pre-Columbian history.
Photo 2 is a portrait head from about 800 A.D.
Photo 3 has in the back on the left a 1300 - 1532 A.D. Imperial Epoch
Double-bodied spout and bridge bottle
Photo 4 - the black dog on the left is Mochica. 1 - 800 A.D. Apogee Epoch Crested animal
Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday: 09:00 - 18:00 hrs.
(Daily including holidays)
- General admission: S/. 30.00
Senior citizens S/. 25.00 (65 and older)
Students and children under 15 years old S/. 15.00 Leave a Comment
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 Pre-Incan Tumi (knife),
Gold Museum, Lima Peru by cruisingbug
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. Leave a Comment Directions: Take a cab - it's out of the way
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No cameras were allowed through the gates of this museum - we had to leave them on the bus. We went through some gates and down a path to an kind of fortress looking place.
The top of the museum had displays of armor and weapons, which some people thought was the best part, although we didn't linger there. There was a long flight of stairs down into the vault where the gold was. The lady in the scooter had to stay at the top.
The guide explained that these objects were bought from grave robbers and no proper archeological work was done, nor were they displayed in a manner that would be easy to understand the time progression. She did a good job of overcoming those deficiencies. Of course she couldn't do anything about the fact that much of this section of the museum is displaying fakes.
When we left there was an area with booths selling souvenirs on each side of the walkway to the museum. I bought a book about gold and some postcards at the booths. The pictures I have of the gold were from the previous museum
OFFICE HOURS:
Monday to Friday of 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
MUSEUM HOURS:
Monday to Sunday of 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
CLOSING DATES:
1st January, 1st May, 28 th July, 25 th December.
ENTRANCE PRICE:
Adults S/. 33.00
Children under 11 S/. 16.00
AUDIOGUIDE SERVICE
Multilingual: French / English / German / Spanish
Contact:
info@museoroperu.com.pe
oroperu@museoroperu.com.pe
Phone: (51)(1)345-1787 Leave a Comment
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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. Leave a Comment
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 Costa Verde by chancay
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. Leave a Comment Phone: +51 1 476-9875Directions: district of San Borja, near to the Avenida Arequipa (between Lima centro and Miraflores)
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 Museo de la Nacion by El_Sueco
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. Leave a Comment
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 Female mummie with hair 2 m
long. by El_Sueco
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. Leave a Comment
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 by El_Sueco
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. Leave a Comment Phone: 63-5070Other Contact: Open 9 AM - 5 PM tue-sun
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 No photos inside! Leave your
camera to the guard. by El_Sueco
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. Leave a Comment Phone: 35-2917Directions: Take a cab!
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