Museo Larco - Lima

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Museo Larco

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Museo Larco Reviews

yadilitta
557 reviews

Discover the ancient Peru - Museo Larco Aug 04, 2008

Located in a vice-royal mansion of a 18th century built over a 7th century pyramid surrounded by beautiful gardens.

This museum is more expensive than the other ones, because it shows a private but huge collection.

It's more focused on the Pre-Columbian history. Specially the Pre-Inca Civilizations' ceramic. They have a huge collection of "huacos" which are a sort of vases. This collection is so big, that they can't show everything and have to keep part of it in a storage room, which you can also visit. These are exhibited permanently, but they also have temporary exhibitions.

By the way this is the only museum, that has an "Erotic Archeological Collection".

I recommend to visit this museum if you have free time, which is difficult if you'd be traveling around the country.

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Museo Larco Blogs

yadilitta

Aug 04, 2008

Some weeks ago I got a message from Mike. He would visit Peru the next month and he needed some advice about how to do it as best as possible. He’s really interested in the ancient civilizations and wanted to see the Inca Culture. He’s not th…Museo Larco” has a huge collection of Pre Inca Art Pieces and they are open daily. Suddenly I remembered all the history lessons I had at school. We saw the different development’s stages of the Pre Inca Cultures in the whole territory of the country… Being a history teacher with Mike – my 1st TB from Oregon :)

sissanoel

Feb 07, 2008

Very cultural day today! We took a taxi to the Museo Rafael Larco, a private museum with an outstanding collection of Peruvian antiquities - lots of gold pieces and a massive collection of ceramics from the various Peruvian cultures. Thi…Museo Rafael Larco, a private museum with an outstanding collection of Peruvian antiquities - lots of gold pieces and a massive collection of ceramics from the various Peruvian cultures. This museum also has good English explanations in the main collection, although none in the temporary… Lima - Museums

davesue2…

Jun 27, 2008

Last night was very interesting... we went out to dinner at Los Delfines - The Dolphins. Was a very posh meal along side a window to a swimming pool maybe 1/2 to 1/3 the size of the 50m outdoor pool at the Lido, with two live dolphins. It was r…Museo Rafael Larco Herra with it´s extensive collections. We quickly found the Air Condor office in town, which was manned by 3 Air Condor security staff and there didn´t appear to be anyone getting in. We managed to get the message through that… Final days in Lima