Best Museum to visit in Lima, Peru

Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM) The Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM) of the Ministry of Culture of Peru is a space for an educational and cultural commemoration that houses the history of violence in Peru between 1980 and 2000. The LUM is located located in the Lima district of Miraflores and was inaugurated in December 2015 during the government of Ol...

Pachacamac Museum The Sanctuary of Pachacamac is a place where the pre-Hispanic architecture moves us by its silence and scale; its long paths confined by impressive wall structures permanently confront us with the worship places. Its relationship with the environment is defined by traces organizing the occupation over time. Pre-Hispanic architects understood that architecture was a mediation b...

Casa de la Moneda de Lima - Museo Numismático del Perú The Numismatic Museum of Peru, located in the former premises of the High Court of Accounts, shows the public the historical process of money in Peru, from the creation of the Mint in 1565 until today. This exhibition allows visitors to know the history of Peru through the symbols, facts, characters, and ideals that have been engraved, pr...

Naval Museum of Peru On October 8, 1957, at the Naval Center of Peru, then chaired by Rear Admiral Guillermo Tirado Lamb, an exhibition of naval objects and memories of the Navy arranged by Rear Admiral Navy Minister Emilio Barrón was held, this was an effective preamble to the Events of the year 1958.   A year later, on March 21, 1958, the naval cadets: Oscar Rizo Patron Belgrano, Fern...

Electricity Museum It contains machines related to electrical installations such as a 5 kW generator. of power used in the decade of the 50s, a mini-hydro electric power station that greatly facilitates the understanding of the operation of large power plants.    Room 1: History of electricity This room shows the history of lighting in Peru. From the first colonial ordinances, the ...

Real Felipe Fortress The Fortress of Real Felipe is located in the bay of Callao (Constitutional Province of Callao). On 28 October of 1746 being approximately 10:30 at night, there was a strong earthquake that caused a tsunami that destroys the old fortress called the old prison. This one had 13 bulwarks, it was made based on crushed cane and mud. The seawater reached what is now Faucett Avenu...

Huaca Pucllana Huaca Pucllana or Huaca Juliana(possibly from Quechua wak'a a local shrine to a protector deity, a sacred place, sacred, pukllana game) is a great adobe and clay pyramid located in the Miraflores district of central Lima, Peru, built from seven staggered platforms. It served as an important ceremonial and administrative center for the advancement of the Lima Culture, a society th...

National Museum of Peruvian Culture The National Museum of Peruvian Culture is one of the most emblematic museums in Peru since that allows, since its inauguration, and through its different exhibits, the presentation of the different traditional artistic manifestations of each part of the Peruvian territory.   The National Museum of Peruvian Culture, whose headquarters are located in th...

Museo de Sitio Arturo Jiménez Borja - Puruchuco Mud and adobe construction belonging to the Inca period. It is considered to be a palace or administrative center of great importance. The distribution of space has geometric lines and is divided into three sectors among which a set of patios and viewpoints stands out. During the excavation process, human burials were discovered, accompanied by e...

Casa Museo José Carlos Mariátegui One of the functions of the General Directorate of Museums of the Ministry of Culture is to ensure the dissemination, conservation, and preservation of heritage to exhibit cultural property belonging to museum collections in their different modalities and ensure that Peruvians not only know their heritage but also Participate in her and her story.   In...

Marina Núñez Del Prado Museum In the 1970s, the sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado Viscarra, born on October 17, 1910, in La Paz, Bolivia, installed her residence and workshop in what would later be her House Museum, located in the Ántero Aspillaga 300 street, in full heart of El Olivar Forest. This neocolonial-style house was acquired in 1973, owned by Mr. Luis Alayza and Paz Soldán, b...

Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco Formerly it was the 'Amaru Cata' or 'House of Knowledge', the school of the Incas, built almost two centuries ago. In 1550 the Spanish conquerors, capable of superimposing their culture and religion on the foundations of others, turned it into a house of religious retreat and later in the Monastery of Santa Clara. In the seventeenth century, Luis Jerónimo Cabr...

Larco Museum Permanent Exhibition The permanent exhibition of the Larco Museum is a space that stimulates and inspires, and where you can enjoy and understand the fascinating history of ancient Peru.   Visitable deposits Almost all the museums in the world have important reservations with restricted access to the visiting public. Since its founding in 1926, the Larco Museum deposit is ...

Italian Art Museum The building has remained open since the inauguration. The project was given to the Italian architect Gaetano Moretti, who also designed The Chinese Font, a gift from the Chinese community for the independence celebration. It's located in the second block of Avenue Paseo de la República in the Historic Center of Lima. It has a big yard, parking lots and 6 rooms for the exhib...

Amano, Pre-Columbian Textile Museum This institution is based on the initiative of the successful Japanese businessman, Yoshitaro Amano, to protect Peru's cultural heritage from destruction and looting.   By 1930, Mr. Amano managed to amass an important fortune in various companies throughout America. Unfortunately, as a result of World War II, he lost many of his properties and business...

Museum of the Inquisition and Congress The Museum of the Congress has the mission to investigate, conserve, exhibit and disseminate the History of the Congress of the Republic and the Cultural Heritage under its charge. Currently, as provided by the Board of the Congress of the Republic, through the Table Agreement No. 139-2016-2017 / MESA-CR, it comprises two museums: Congress Chamber ...

National Afro-Peruvian Museum Located in the Casa de las Trece Monedas, a colonial rococo mansion from the 18th century, you find the Afro-Peruvian National Museum. The museum explains the history of Afro-Americans in Peru and the contribution their culture made to the country. The main subjects are slavery and the beginnings of the trade of African slaves in Latin America including the charact...

Basílica y Convento de San Francisco de Lima The crypts of San Francisco, which have gained fame with the name of catacombs for similarity to the Roman ones, are a series of underground vaults (under the chapels of the church), these were used until the early nineteenth century and served as a burial to members of brotherhoods and brotherhoods.   In its extensive route, you can see vaul...

Contemporary Art Museum The LiMAC project combines two diametrically opposed museum typologies: a 19th-century museum with a succession of rooms divided by walls — a classic exhibition gallery — and a 20th-century museum space with a freeform plan and a grid of columns supporting the roof. Starting at one corner the cross-sectional dimensions of the columns gradually increase, with the patt...

Museo de Historia Natural The Natural History Museum, founded on February 28, 1918, is a dependency of the Rector's Office of the University in charge of collecting, researching, and exhibiting organisms and representative samples of the Natural Heritage of Peru and humanity with Flora, Fauna, and Gea, to generate scientific knowledge and impart it at all levels. The specimens of such samples a...

BCRP Museum Lima District The Central Museum is a cultural space in which dialogue is used as a tool to generate community; space where, when interacting with art and with other visitors, we recognize ourselves as heirs of a cultural tradition originating from thousands of years, which was enriched and transformed over time, shaping our current cultural diversity.   The Central Museum is...

Museum of the nation The museum of the nation of Lima is listed as the largest conservator of Peruvian art heritage, within a building where the Ministry of Culture also operates. It has a particular structure of five floors.   It is one of the museums of Lima that has undergone major renovations throughout its life, the last known being that of 2015 after which the exhibition halls to t...

Automobile Museum Association Nicolini Peru Collection There is a place in Lima that pays tribute to classic cars. This is the invaluable collection of Jorge Nicolini gathered in an impressive automotive museum. RPP had the opportunity to visit this exhibition that is also open to the public every day of the week.   The story begins in April 1962. Jorge Nicolini was barely 18 years old w...

Museum of Natural History The Natural History Museum in Lima is Peru's most important museum of natural history. It was established in 1918 and belongs to the National University of San Marcos.   History The museum was founded in 1918 by the Faculty of Sciences of the National University of San Marcos. The first director and founder of the museum were Carlos Rospigliosi. The ini...

Museo Metropolitano de Lima The Metropolitan Museum of Lima is not a conventional museum. Here the showcases have been replaced by audiovisuals, scenographies, and 3D and 4D systems that allow visitors to become travelers through time and explore the history of Lima, in an adventure that transports them 10 thousand years ago and that revives the past.   The museum has a room for temporar...

Huaca Huallamarca This archaeological monument is duly preserved and contrasts with the modern buildings that are located around it, being a clear testimony of the great legacy left by ancient societies. Archaeological works have shown that the building shows a long and continuous cultural sequence.   Three different moments of occupation have been recognized characterized by a particula...

Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán As of August 9th, 2003, Peru, Lambayeque, and Chiclayo have a new museum. The Royal Tombs of Sipán exhibits the most important archaeological remains of the  Mochica Culture, in an exceptional exhibition that combines maximum scientific accuracy, security, and enjoyment to show the jewels, emblems, and ornaments found in 1987 in the tomb of a Mochi...

Casa de la Gastronomía Peruana The House of Peruvian Gastronomy was inaugurated on March 24, 2011, in the former Post and Telegraph House of Peru, a few meters from the Plaza Mayor of Lima. It was born as an institution of the Ministry of Culture to spread the values of Peruvian cuisine, the origins of our culinary and affirming our cultural identity, which in recent years has achieved fair re...

Pedro de Osma Museum The Pedro de Osma Museum exhibits Peruvian artistic pieces from the fifth to the eighteenth century. The artworks from Ancient Peru correspond to the geographic area of ​​the southern Andes and belong to a private collection from Cuzco. Tiahuanaco and Inca cultures were developed on this territory. The works from the viceregal period consist of paintings, sculptures, fu...

MATE Mario Testino Museum MATE - Mario Testino Museum is a not-for-profit center established to contribute to Peru through the cultivation and promotion of culture and heritage. Exhibit  Founded by Mario Testino in 2012, MATE (pronounced mAH-teh) aims to bring Peruvian artists and culture to worldwide attention, while offering the best of international contemporary art and photograph...

Gold Museum of Peru and Arms of the World Gold Museum of Peru In the showcases of the Oro del Peru museum, the most important manifestations of human art are shown, as well as, technological advances that have accompanied Peruvian man since the earliest times, although the main pieces have been made in Gold, it also has pieces in silver and copper, as well as textiles, ceramics, and wood, main...

Palacio de la Exposición The Palace of the Exhibition, a building that houses the Museum of Art of Lima - MALI, is one of the most beautiful examples of the eclectic architecture of Lima. Conceived and built as the headquarters of the first major public exhibition in our country, the 'Great Exhibition of Arts, Sciences and Industries' held on the occasion of the fifty years of independence, ea...