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Larco Museum and Archaeological Museum
DAILY DEPARTURES
MORNING : 09.15 APROX
AFTERNOON : 2.30 APROX
DURATION : 4 HOURS APROX
PRICE : $50.00
 A
single tour comprised of beautiful Colonial mansions with
some of the major gold, ceramic, textile and art collections
in South America.
Great museums are in capital cities and Lima is one of them.
Lima is home to two of the most important museums in this
part of the Americas. They house incomparable artifacts and
collections of pre-Colombian art from Peru and the New
World.
LARCO MUSEUM. Housed in a unique colonial residence
dating back to the XVII century, built on top of a VIII
century pyramid, this fabulous museum includes the exquisite
Collection of Peruvian Gold and Silver from the olden days,
and the Pre-Hispanic Erotic Art Salon. Its pieces have
toured major world museums. Larco is among only a few
museums around the world opening their vaults to the public,
with over 45,000 archaeological pieces that have been
classified by renowned specialists and scholars. The Larco
Museum exhibits the largest private collection of pre-Colombian
Peruvian art in the world.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY.
The old Colonial mansion housing this museum was an old
residence of Peru’s viceroys and then of its Liberators.
This is Peru’s grandest museum and houses the Estela
Raymondi and the Tello Obelisk monuments, two important
carved stone pieces dating back to the Formative period 1000
years B.C. It features the largest textile collection, with
fabrics from the Pre-Ceramic period through the Inca Empire,
and a major collection of Ancient Peruvian metals. The
remarkable Tawantinsuyo Room illustrates one hundred years
of the Inca Empire through virtual models and re-creations.
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