MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARQUEOLOGIA Y ANTROPOLOGIA
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Attention, this museum is under renovation, but its reopening was announced soon, inform you before programming a visit. This museum has priceless treasures of the different pre-Inca cultures. Not to be missed, the mochica room and the showcases dedicated to the wari culture, the few erotic ceramics, the Paracas textiles, the chimú jewels and utensils, the mummies with the deformed and trepanned skulls of the coastal peoples (a particularly impressive mummy veils his face with his left hand where the nails shine). The engraved stones - including the Raimondi stele from the Chavín period, 2 m high, and the Tello obelisk found in Chavín de Huantar, with its engravings of fantastic animals - as well as the crossed hands of Kotosh, are all breathtaking subjects.
Also fascinating is the Museo Nacional de Historia, with furniture and paintings from the colonial and republican periods (including a remarkable gallery of some 35 portraits of the viceroys of Peru). This part is located in the Quinta de los Libertadores, a large colonial house with a flowered patio, which was inhabited successively by José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar, the liberators of the country. Guide service in French (S/ 15). Around the Plaza de Pueblo Libre, colorful houses and some traditional addresses. Quite dense, we hope that the renovation will allow a beautiful enhancement of these treasures that will illuminate what we will see later in the trip.
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