NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square [es] of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 artifacts spanning the entire history of human occupation in what is now Peru. Highlights include the Raimondi Stele and the Tello Obelisk from Chavín de Huantar, and an impressive scale model of the Incan citadel, Machu Picchu.
GOLD MUSEUM OF PERU
The Gold Museum of Peru and Weapons of the World (Spanish: Museo Oro del Perú y Armas del Mundo), also known simply as the Gold Museum of Peru (Spanish: Museo Oro del Perú, MOdP) is a Peruvian archaeology and war museum located in the neighbourhood of Monterrico, Santiago de Surco, Lima.
The museum was founded by diplomat and avid hunter Miguel Mujica Gallo [es] in the 1960s in order to display his lifelong private collection of pre-Incan gold pieces and arms of the world, owning it until 1993. It is in a two-story building made of reinforced concrete and accessed through a vault-style entrance. The museum was donated to the Peruvian State by Gallo and is now administered by the Miguel Mujica Gallo Foundation, which is currently directed by Victoria Mujica Diez Canseco, the founder's daughter.
Mujica acquired over 7,000 gold artifacts belonging to pre-Columbian cultures and made out of precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum, in addition to multiple textiles, ceramics, mummies and other valuables. The collection is valued at over $10 million. Four pre-Incan cultures are featured in the collection: Vicus, Moche, Sican and Chimu. Additionally, items belonging to the Inca Empire are also featured. Mujica also collected over 20,000 weapons from around the world, the oldest dated from the 13th century. The collection also includes military uniforms, saddles, armor, spurs and other objects.
LARCO MUSEUM
The Larco Museum (officially known as Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum, in Spanish: Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera) is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building. It showcases chronological galleries that provide a thorough overview of 5,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. It is well known for its gallery of pre-Columbian erotic pottery.
The museum has several permanent exhibitions. The Gold and Silver Gallery showcases the largest collection of jewelry used by many notable rulers of pre-Columbian Peru. It comprises a collection of crowns, earrings, nose ornaments, garments, masks and vases, finely wrought in gold and decorated with semi-precious stones. Ancient Peruvian cultures represented their daily lives in ceramics, and this gallery holds the world's largest collection of erotic ceramics. The Cultures Gallery exhibits 10,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. This chronology-based gallery provides visitors with a comprehensive view of cultures that existed in pre-Columbian Peru through the extant indigenous art that has survived since the 16th century Spanish conquest. This hall is divided into four areas: North Coast, Center, South and cultures from the highlands.
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