Museums

This is a meeting point for people interested in culture and art. It was the most important place where pieces from Lord of Sipan were displayed short after the discovery and where musical concerts are held in special, classical music.

Read more: Museo de la Nación

This National museum is the oldest public museum and is the headquarters of the national museums system. It is important due to its wide and diverse cultural patrimony that it has in its display rooms. Pottery, textiles, metals, organic material, invaluable human related lithics compound our past legacy of the pre Hispanic past. Historic-artistic valuable objects and photo.

Read more: National Museum for the Archeology, Anthropology and History of Peru.

It is surrounded by beautiful gardens and it is located inside a vice regal mansion that is unique in its kind that is from 18th century which was built on a pre Colombian pyramid from 7th century.

Read more: Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum

Pieces of art, colonial furniture and catacombs are displayed that are a series of underground passages where the old inhabitants were buried.

Read more: Museum of San Francisco Convent

Origin and characteristics of the fortress, relics, historic vestiges, fact allegories, customs and historic tradition of the army.

Read more: Real Felipe Fortress and Museum of the Peruvian Army

Huaca Pucllana was a ceremonial and administrative center of Lima culture during the early intermediate time (200 to 700 A.D.) The site museum was created in 1984 as result of diverse works of research that had started in 1981 in order to save the archeological objects that were recovered and keep a presence in the site to guarantee its conservation.

Read more: Huaca Pucllana Site Museum