Museums

 

Museo Amano

Calle Retiro 160. Miraflores
Tel: (511) 441-2909 / (511) 442 1007
(Visits by appointment only)
Painted cloth, quipus and ceramic from the Chancay culture as well as from other nothern and highland cultures.

Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera

Av. Bolívar 1515. Pueblo Libre
Tel: (511) 461-1312
(M-Sa: 9:00-18:00, Su: 9:00-13:00)
http://www.tsi.com.pe/museolarco
50,000 ceramic pieces (mainly Moche and Chimú), a collection of sexually explicit pottery, gold and silver pieces, textiles, feather embroidery and stone sculptures.

Museo Asociación Civil Enrique Loli / Museo de Coleccion Enrico Poli

Lord Cochrane 466. Miraflores, Lima 18
Tel: (511) 422-2437 / (511) 4407100
(Visits by appointment only. Entry fee US$10)
Gold and silver work ceramics, Preínca, Inca, Colonial and Republican paintings and furniture.

Museo de Arte

Paseo Colón 125. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 423-4732
(Tu-Sa: 10:00-17:00)
http://museoarte.perucultural.org.pe/exhibperm/index.htm
Three thousand years of Peruvian art from the Preínca cultures to the contemporary era.

Museo de Arte Colonial Pedro de Osma

Av. Pedro de Osma 421. Barranco
Tel: (511) 467-0915, 467-0019
(Tu-Su: 10:00-18:00)
Paintings, sculptures, furniture, silverwork and other vice-royal decorative art work.

Museo de Arte Italiano

Paseo de la República 250. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 423-9932
(M-F: 9:00-16:30)
Italian paintings, sculptures, etchings and art work.

Museo del Arte Popular del Instituto Riva Agüero

Jirón Camaná 459. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 427-9275
(Tu-Sa: 11:00-20:00, Su: 10:00-17:00 )
Republican and contemporary folkart in the Riva Agüero colonial mansion at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru

Museo de Arte Religioso de la Catedral de Lima

Plaza Mayor. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 427-5980, 427-9647
(M-F: 10:00-16:45)
Religious furniture, liturgical ornaments, paintings, gold and silverwork and religious imagery in wood and ivory.

Museo de Historia Natural Javier Prado

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Avenida Arenales 1256. Jesús María- Lima 11
Tel: (511) 471-0117, 474-0434
(M-F: 9:00-15:00, Sa: 9:00-17:00, Su: 9:00-13:00)
Fossil remains and representative examples of the flora and fauna of natural regions in Peru.

Museo de la Nación

Av. Javier Prado Este 2465. San Borja, Lima
Tel: (511) 476-9875 / (511) 476 9878
(Tu-Su: 9:00-20:00)
Archeological and ethnographic examples of ancient Peruvian cultures. Folk art wing.

Museo del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú

Jr. Ucayali 299, esquina con Jr. Lampa. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 427-6250 anexo 2657
(M-F: 10:00-16:30, Sa-Su: 10:00-13:00)
http://museobcr.perucultural.org.pe
Prehispanic art, Republican art gallery and numismatics

Museo del Convento de los Descalzos

Alameda de los Descalzos. Rímac
Tel: (511) 481-3433, 481-0441
(W-M: 9:30-13:00, 15:00-18:00)
Viceroyal painting from the Lima, Cuzco and Quito schools. Examples of Lima's baroque architecture, cloisters, cells, refectory, library, pharmacy and infirmary.

Museo del Convento de San Francisco

Plaza San Francisco. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 427-1381, 426-7377
(M-Sa: 7:00-11:30, 16:30-20:00)
Liturgical furniture, ecclesiastic ornaments and silver work. Visits to the catacombs.

Museo de Oro del Perú y Armas del Mundo

Avenida Alonso de Molina 1100. La Molina
Tel: (511) 345-1271
(M-Su: 11:00 -19:00)
Gold, silver and Prehispanic metallurgy collection (Mochica and Lambayeque cultures) and the largest single private collection of old firearms and military uniforms in the world.

Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arqueologia e Historia

Plaza Bolívar s/n. Pueblo Libre
Tel: (511) 463-5070
(Ma-D: 9:00-18:00, Feriados: 9:00-17:00)
http://mnaah.perucultural.org.pe/index2.htm
Preínca, Inca, Colonial and Republican cultural pieces, including paintings and personal objects from various leaders of the country.

Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana

Av. Alfonso Ugarte 650. Lima 1
Tel: (511) 423-5892
(Tu-F: 10:00-16:30, S: 10:00-14:00)
Prehispanic pieces and contemporary popular art from Peru.

Museo de Arqueologia y Antropologia San Marcos
http://www.museoarqueologiasanmarcos.perucultural.org.pe

Museo Sican
http://www.sican.perucultural.org.pe

Museo de Arte Precolombino
http://www.map.perucultural.org.pe

Museo de la Electricidad
http://www.museoelectri.perucultural.org.pe

Museo Yavarí
http://www.proyectoyavari.perucultural.org.pe

Museo Puruchuco
http://www.museopuruchuco.perucultural.org.pe

Museo de Sitio Pachacamac
http://www.pachacamac.perucultural.org.pe

Museo de Sitio Huaca Pucllana
http://www.pucllana.perucultural.org.pe

Museo Compañia de Bomberos italia Nº 5
http://www.museobomberos.perucultural.org.pe

Museo Aeronáutico
http://www.incaland.com/museofap

Museo Tumbas Señor de Sipan
http://www.sipan.perucultural.org.pe

Museo Larco
http://www.museolarco.perucultural.org.pe

Museo de la Inquisición
http://www.congreso.gob.pe/museo.htm

 

 

 

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