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MuseumsSite Name: Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera Alternative Name: Museo Larco
Country: Peru Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Lima
Latitude: 12.0722S  Longitude: 77.0707W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : More exhibits from Museo Larco, Lima Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum of pre-Columbian art in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building with a large garden. The chronological galleries show artwork from 4,000 years of Peruvian history grouped by geographic regions.

The collections core was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by the Herrera and Hoyle families, sugarcane barons. Rafael Larco Hoyle was given what had been the private collection of this uncle and father and opened it to the public in 1926. His interest led to further collecting and excavations where he documented archaeological finds and context. Many of his proposals and assessments of cultural chronologies for the North Coast of Peru are still considered valid.

There is a separate gallery of pre-Columbian "erotic" pottery grouped by themes.

The museum can still be considered as an art gallery with fewer explanations of technology and cultural change than can be found in the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History. Displays are beautifully arranged with modern lighting, cases, and brief descriptions in six languages.

The museum building was built over a 7th-century pre-Columbian pyramid, one of several dozen found in the Lima area.

Museum Website (in English). See links to the on-line catalog (in Spanish.)

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Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : Some exhibits of Museo Larco, Lima Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : More exhibits from Museo Larco, Lima Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : Museo Larco, textile. Material: cotton and camelid fiber thread. Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : Tenon head, found in Huaraz, Pallasca and Chavin, Peru. Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : In ancient Peru the real value of gold lay in its status as a symbol of royal identity and supernatural power. Museo Larco, Lima Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : Gold and silver expressed the power of the sun and the moon, as well as that of their descendants, the ruling elite. Museo Larco, Lima Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : Gold and silver expressed the power of the sun and the moon, as well as that of their descendants, the ruling elite. Museo Larco, Lima Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416 : The museum exhibits are really interesting indeed. And then I found out they have a storage of thousands of clay finds! The storage consists of at least five such rooms! The museum doesn't have the capacity to show all of them, so they were placed in closets. Some are like new! Photo credit: Maria Korh @MK38416 on Twitter

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera submitted by MK38416

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Re: Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Andy B on Saturday, 16 March 2024
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