Gold Museum of Lima
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Museo de Oro del Peru (Museum of Peruvian Gold) Location: Plaza BolÃvar, Pueblo Libre
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 9:15am to 5:00pm, Sunday from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Telephone: 463-5070 and 463-2009
Website: http://mnaah.perucultural.org.pe/
Founded by Julio C. Tello in 1938; exhibition of the biggest historical collection in Peru, more than 100 thousand pieces, from all the Peruvian cultures, ordered in didactic and chronological way. Ceramic pieces, metallic pieces, fabrics, funeral bales, sculptures carved in stone, etc.
Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera(Archaeological museum Rafael Larco Herrera)
Location: Bolivar Avenue No. 1515, Pueblo Libre
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 9:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday from 9:00am to 4:00pm
Telephone: 461-1312 and 461-1835
Website: http://museolarco.perucultural.org.pe/
Founded in 1926, on an old mansion built in 1707. This museum harbors the biggest private collection of pre-columbine art that exists in the world. Exhibition of archaeological pieces of ceramic, gold, stone, wood and textile of pre-Hispanic cultures, especially the Peruvian northern cultures. Outstanding the “Sala de Arte Textil” (Textile Art room), the “Gran Sala de la Cultura” (Great Room of the Culture), and the “Bóveda Sala de Oro” (vault Gold Room). It also exhibits the only collection of world of “Erotic Huacos”.History library.
Museo de la Nación (Museum of the Nation)
Location: Javier Prado Este Avenue No. 2465, San Borja.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00am to 6:00pm
Telephone: 476-9875 and 476-9882
Inaugurated in 1990, exhibition in big rooms distributed in four levels, with a sample that recreates all the pre-Hispanic manifestations among 14,000 BC. and 1532 AD. Ceramic exhibition, replicas of the main archaeological places of Peru. Dioramas, paintings and diverse collections that represent the different aspects of the development of the old Peru. Restoration shops, historical file, libraries, galleries and auditorium.
Museo Amano
Location: Retiro Street No. 160, Miraflores
Hours: By appointment only.
Telephone: 441-2909
Private collection of Mr. Yoshirato Amano. The museum was founded in 1964, exhibition of pre-Hispanic textiles, quipus and ceramics. Outstands the collection of the Chancay culture.
Museo de Arte or Museum of Art
Location: Paseo Colon Street No. 125, Lima.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm
Telephone: 423-4732
Website: http://museoarte.perucultural.org.pe/
Located on the Palacio de la Exposición (Palace of the Exhibition) since 1961. It was built in 1872 with plans of Gustave Eiffel. Formed by donated pieces and legacies. It exhibits collections that show the art of Peru from the prehistory and the first human discoveries until the contemporary art. Ceramic and fabric pre-Hispanic cultures collections. Silver jewels, furniture and colonial dresses. Paintings of the “Escuela Cusqueña” and of the periods republican and contemporary, outstanding the collections of Ignacio Merino, Pancho Fierro and Carlos Baca Flor.
Museo del Banco Central de Reserva or Museum of the Central Bank of Reservation
Location: Corner of Lampa and Ucayali Streets, Lima.
Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00am to 4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 2:00pm
Telephone:427-6250
This museum is divided in three sections, archeology, numismatist and contemporary Peruvian painting. Excellent ceramic collection of the pre-Inca Vicus culture. The contemporary painters are very well represented in this museum.
Museo de San Francisco de Jesus or Museum of San Francisco of Jesus
Location: Ancash Street 3rd block, Lima.
Hours: Daily from 10:00am to 5:45pm
Exhibition of liturgical articles of the viceroyalty, carved articles and paintings of Francisco of Zurbarán.
Museo del Congreso y Antiguo Tribunal de la Inquisición or Museum of the Congress and Old Tribunal of Inquisition
Location: Junin Street No. 548, BolÃvar Plaza, Lima.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am to 1:00pm
Telephone: 427-0365
Website: http://www.congreso.gob.pe/museo/index.htm
Located on the old colonial local of the Tribunal of the Saint Inquisition that originally was Nicolás de Riberas house (XVII century), son of one of the conquerors of Peru.
The building consists on a Chapel named “Capilla del Santo Oficio”, jewel of the colonial architecture, decorated roof that is considered one of the most valuable colonial relics in the Peruvian art, carved, secret cameras, torture rooms, and underground prisons. After having abolished the Inquisition it was the local of the University San Marcos, the Senate of the Republic and at the moment headquarters of the Museum.
Representations of the punishments that were applied by the Saint Office Tribunal. In the secret cameras is located the place where the priests moved with ropes the head of the famous Christ of natural size that approved the Saint Office decisions.
Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana or National Museum of the Peruvian Culture
Location: Alfonso Ugarte Avenue No. 650, Lima.
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00am to 2:30pm
Telephone: 423-5892
Founded in 1946, building with front inspired by the Tiahuanaco culture. Exhibition of popular Peruvian arts, Amazon and folkloric ethnology; fabrics, ceramic, and musical instruments
Museo de Arte Italiano or Museum of Italian Art
Location: Paseo de la Republica 1st block, Lima.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 2:30pm
Telephone: 423-9932
Founded in 1921, building with the Florentine renascence architecture. Designed by the Milan Architect Gaetano Moretti. Donated by the Italian colony in Peru when being commemorated the centennial of the Independence of Peru. Sculptures, drawings, furniture and canvases of Italian art. Also diverse temporary exhibitions.
Museo de Arte Religioso de la Catedral or Museum of Religious Art of the Cathedral
Location: Main Plaza, Lima.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 10:00am to 12:45pm and from 2:00pm to 4:45pm
Telephone: 427-5980
Exhibition of liturgical objects, ornaments, carved articles, paintings, gold and silverwork and religious imagery in wood and ivory, and furniture of the viceroyalty time.
