Adolfo Bermudez Jenkins Regional Museum
Avenida Ayabaca, block 8. Ica.
Telephone: (056) 23-4383 / 23-2881.
Visiting Hours: Mon. – Fri. 8:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M. Sat. and holidays 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
It featured a collection of pieces from the Paracas, Nasca, Huari, Ica, and Inca cultures. There are also Colonial canvases and furniture and some Republican objects.

Ancash Archeological Museum
Avenida Luzuriaga 762, Huaraz
Telephone: (043) 72-1551.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sat. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
The museum features an important stone sculpture collection of the Recuay culture as well as exhibitions of pottery and textiles from pre-Inca cultures such as Chavin, Huaras White on Red, Mochica, Wari, and Chimu.

Antonini Didactic Museum
Avenida La Cultura 600, Nazca.
Telephone (056) 52-3444, Fax (056) 52-3100.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M.
A collection of archaeological pieces of the different stages of the Nasca culture as well as trophy heads, musical instruments like pan flutes, textiles, mummies, etc. are exhibited in this museum. These discoveries are the result of the excavations done in “Cahuachi”, the largest mud maid ceremonial center in the world. The museum also provides the chance to see the Bisambra canal, which shows the magnificent hydraulic engineering work of the Nascas.

Antonio Raimondi House and Museum
Jiron 2 de Mayo 432, San Pedro de Lloc. La Libertad.
Telephone: (044) 52-8338 / 52-8646 / 962-6620Fax (044) 528338.
Visiting hours: Tues. – Sun 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
A colonial house inhabited in the nineteenth century by the Italian naturalist Antonio Raimondi, it has a permanent 120 m2 / 1292 feet2 room in which the life and work of this scientist is shown through amusing and interactive exhibitions.

Amano Museum
Calle Retiro 160. Miraflores, Lima.
Telephone: (511) 441-2909 / 222-5827 / 442-1007.
Visits: Upon reservation.
You will find archeological pieces there such as ceramics from the Kotosh, Moche, Chimú, Cupisnique, and Nasca cultures. An important collection of pre-Hispanic textiles is on display, chronologically organised, the Chancay (CentralCoast) cultural pieces being the most impressive.

Bethlehem Complex (Conjunto Monumental Belen)
Jiron Belen, block 6. Cajamarca
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sat. 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
An eighteenth century architectural complex composed of the church, the former Men’s Hospital (MedicalMuseum), and the former Women’s Hospital (Archeological and EthnographicMuseum), which was named “Hospital de Nuestra Señora de la Piedad” (Our Lady of Mercy Hospital). The Baroque church is characterized by a carefully carved stone entrance, unfinished towers, arcades, and buttressed sides.

Bruning National Archeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional Bruning)
City of Lambayeque. Avenida Huamachuco, block 8. Lamnayeque.
Telephone: (074) 28-2110. Fax: (074) 28-3440.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. including holidays
Here, a collection of archeological objects gathered by the German ethnographer Enrique Bruning is displayed. The four floors of the museum show ceramic, textile, stone and wood worked artifacts. Taken together, they demonstrate the vigorous artistic and technological character of the regional cultures of the past 5000 years. The “Sala de Oro” (Gold Room) of this museum is an exhibition of the priceless historic treasure of the pre-Colombian America.

Catholic University of Saint Mary
(Museo Santuarios Andinos de la Universidad Católica de Santa María)
Calle La Merced 110, downtown Arequipa.
Telephone: (054) 21-5013.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sat. 9:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M. Sundays 9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Here, they exhibit la Dama de Ampato (the Lady of Ampato), an Inca mummy of a twelve to fourteen year old girl found at the top of the Ampato volcano by the climber Miguel Zárate, the archeologist José Chávez, and the anthropologist Johan Reinhard on September 8, 1995. According to the specialists, it is very likely that the girl, whose remains were found frozen, died from a blow to the temple from a five pointed granite mace. It seems that she was sacrificed to the Ampato Apu (protector god) some 500 years ago.

Chavin Archeological Complex Exposition Hall
Chavín de Huantar, Ancash.
Telephone: (043) 45-4042.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
It shows a varied collection of textiles, ceramic and stone pieces belonging to different pre-Inca cultures such as Chavin, Huaras White on Red, Recuay, and Wari.

Daniel Hernandez Regional Museum
Jiron Arica, block 2 (Location of the National Cultural Institute)..
Plaza San Juan de Dios. Huancavelica.
Telephone: (067) 75-3420
Visiting hours: Mon. – Fri. 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
The location possesses a varied collection of pieces from mollusk fossils and other marine species from the Tertiary and Quaternary to pre-Incan objects, Vice royal pieces, and artifacts form the War for Independence. There are also works of art from Peruvian painters like Daniel Hernandez, Fernando de Szyszlo, Milner Cajahuaringa, and others.

Huallamarca Huaca
Intersection of Avenida El Rosario and Avenida Nicolás de Rivera. San Isidro, Lima.
Tel. (511) 222-4124.
Visiting hours: Tues. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. (Site Museum).
A pyramidal temple that chronologically corresponds to the beginning of regional development. The place is a result of a series of cultural superimpositions, the three most important being the Lima, Wari, and Inca cultures. The SiteMuseum houses pieces found during the excavations of the area.

Jose Cassinelli Museum of Archeology (Museo de Arqueología José Cassinelli)
Av. Nicolas de Pierola 607. Trujillo, La Libertad.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.
A display of fine archeological objects from the Mochica, Chimu, and Recuay cultures.

Josefina Ramos de Cox Archeological Museum of the Riva Agüero Institute– Pontifical University Catholic of Peru
Jiron de La Union 554. Lima.
Telephone: (511) 427-4961/ 626-2000.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sat. 10:00 A.M. – 7:30 P.M. and Sun. 11:00 A.M – 5:00 P.M.
It gathers archeological and ethno-historical evidence excavated in the 1960’s and belonging to pre-Inca, Inca, and Hispanic-Andean periods. Among the most important pieces is a specimen from the Maranga huacas. The museum is housed in a beautiful Colonial residence known as the O’Higgins house, and it is still possible to see testimonies of the Vice royal and Republican eras there.

Kotosh or Temple of the Crossed Hands
5 km / 3 miles west of Huanuco (5 minutes by car)
This archeological site is more than 4000 years old. There are three temples built on top of one another: Nichitos, Blanco, and the Manos Cruzadas. The latter features five niches – to the sides of the upper niche, you see two sculptures of crossed hands. One of them shows the right hand resting on the left, and the other, the left hand resting on the right hand. It is thought that they refer to a notion of duality present in the cosmology of these ancient people.

Kuntur Wasi Site Museum
3 km / 1,8 miles from the city of San Pablo (7 minutes by car). Cajamarca.
There are permanent exhibitions of the different objects found in the excavations of Kuntur Wasi: gold, semi-precious stones, ceramics, stone utensils, and bones. In addition, you can view maps, plans, and pictures of the research work done by the University of Tokyo. It is located at the top of the hill, La Copa, 2273 masl / 7457 fasl.

Leymebamba Site Museum
Avenida Austria, Leymebamba. Amazonas.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.The city of Leymebamba is 93 km / 58 miles south of Chachapoyas (3 hours and 30 minutes by car).
The museum is a 10 km / 6 miles walk from the city.
This modern museum exhibits the mummies and the objects found at the Lake of the Condors as well as textiles, ceramics, and weapons found in the area.

Manuel Humberto Espinoza Archeological Museum
Located behind the Huaytara City Hall. Huancavelica.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 8:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.
More than 1,000 objects are exhibited here with pieces of pottery, gold and silver jewelry, fossils, mummy bundles, and textiles from the pre-Columbian cultures of the Nazca, Paracas, and Wari.

Museum of the Inquisition and the Congress
Jiron Junin 548. Lima.
Telephone: (511) 311-7777 extension 2910.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
The museum preserves numerous objects and rooms which were used during the Inquisition process. Among them, there is the Courtroom where the members of the Inquisition Tribunal met. Interesting sights are the Secret Door, used to conduct individuals to the Grand Inquisitor’s private room, the Torture Chamber, the secret dungeon with its subterranean cells, and the Inquisition Library. Library of Congress. Across the street, occupying the area that used to be the old church and monastery of la Caridad (sixteenth century), there is the Congressional Building of the Republic, a Neo-classical building constructed between 1912 and 1916.

National Anthropological, Archeological and Historic Museum (Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arqueología e Historia)
Plaza Bolívar. Pueblo Libre, Lima.
Telephone: (511) 463-5070 / Fax: 463-2009.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
It integrates the entire Peruvian archeological and historical process and houses one of the most complete pre-Colombian collections of ceramics, textiles, and fine metal works with pieces from the Chavín, Paracas, Nasca, Mochica, Tiahuanaco, Pucará, Chimú, Chachapoyas, and Inca cultures. There are also rooms and galleries that exhibit Colonial and Republican pieces: an art gallery with canvasses from the CuscoSchool, a complete collection of portraits of the Viceroys, iconography of the liberators and other illustrious people, and portraits of presidents and figures of Peruvian history.

National Museum
Avenida Javier Prado Este 2465. San Borja, Lima.
Telephone: (511) 476-9878.
Visiting hours: Tues. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. except Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday, May 1st, Independence Day (28th – 29th July), Christmas Day, and New Years.
A large collection of original pieces that correspond to the different pre-Hispanic epochs of Peruvian history are on display, the most interesting being the replica of the Lord of Sipan tomb. The museum also has works of Colonial, Republican, popular, and modern contemporary art, as well as ethnographic pieces. Today, they also put on very important temporary exhibitions and cultural activities.

National Sican Museum (Museo Nacional Sicán)
Avenida Batán Grande on the highway to Pitipo, 18 km / 11 miles north of Chiclayo (30 minutes by car). Lambayeque.
Telephone / fax: (074) 28-6469.
Visiting hours: Tues. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Sican or House of the Moon is a museum that gathers objects from the research lead by the archeologist Izumi Shimada, director of the Sican Archeological Project (1978), for more than two decades. The exhibition compiles the artifacts found in the site digs of Batán Grande and demonstrates how they were used or fabricated. The intention is to model different aspects linked to the Sican culture through the representation of the details of domestic life, the manufacturing processes, or production work. The rooms represent excavated tombs and exhibit the burial paraphernalia discovered there.  The museum also offers detailed information on the excavation process and site preservation, as well as the chronology, development, trade networks, economic activities, burial patterns, and cosmology of the Sican or Lambayeque cultures.

National University of Trujillo Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History (Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo)
Jiron Junin 682. La Libertad.
Telephone (044) 24-9322.
Visiting hours: Mon 9:00A.M. – 2:45 P.M.; Tues. – Fri. 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.; Sat. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Archeological remnants related to the different pre-Hispanic cultures that developed in the department of La Libertad are displayed here. The museum is located in the Risco House, famous for its patios decorated with murals. Ceramic objects, jewelry, clothing, and feather mosaic are the highlights of the exhibitions.

Pashas-Cabana Zone Archeological Museum
Main Square of Cabana. Ancash.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Fri. 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. / 3:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.
A modern museum that displays ceramic and metal objects as well as over a hundred pictures, drawings, and sketches representing different aspects of the Recuay culture (present in the Pashash Archeological Site).

Rafael Larco Herrera Archeological Museum
Avenida Bolivar 1515. Pueblo Libre, Lima.
Telephone: (511) 461-1312 / 461-1835.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.
This features a large private collection of pre-Hispanic art especially works of ceramic, gold, and textile. In addition, it provides the largest collection of erotic figurines and mummies from the Chavín, Chimú, Nasca, and Inca cultures.

Real Felipe Fortress (Fortaleza del Real Felipe)
Independencia Square (beginning of Avenida Saenz Peña). Callao.
Telephone: (01) 429-0532.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Built in 1747 following the design of the Frenchman Luis Godin, it was one of the most important fortresses in South America and played a significant role during the Colony, protecting the city from the attacks of pirates and corsairs. Later, in 1866, during the battle of May 2nd, it turned into the country’s main line of defense during the war against Spain. Today, it is the Peruvian Army Museum and exhibits objects, uniforms, and weapons of the Peruvian Army.

Royal Tombs of Sipan National Museum (Museo Nacional Tumbas Reales de Sipán)
City of Lambayeque. Avenida Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzmán.
Telephone / Fax: (074) 28-3977. Telephone: (074) 28-3978.
Visiting hours: Tues. – Sun. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
This modern architectural building houses the collection of archeological objects of gold, silver, and copper found in the tomb of the Lord of Sipan. The museum is directed by the archeologist Watler Alva, manager and director of the project, who was also the discoverer of the tomb in the archeological zone of the Huaca Rajada in the town of Sipan. Among the many important pieces are earrings, ceremonial scepters, medallions, a heavy circular gold ingot, nose rings, gold necklaces in the shape of peanuts, a gold chin and cheek mask, gold back flap, and gold disks worn around the neck.

Sechin Archeological Site and the Max Uhle Site Museum
5 km / 3 miles southeast of Casma (10 minutes by car). Ancash.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
This adobe and stone ceremonial center belonging to the Sechin Culture (1800 B.C. – 800 B.C.) features a wall covered with carefully carved stones outside of the entrance and a painted wall on the inside. The museum offers information about the main pre-Hispanic cultures that settled in the region like the Moche, the Wari, the Chimu, the Casma, and the Inca; it also displays the objects found during the excavations on the archeological sites of the CasmaValley, especially ceramics.

Sillustani Archeological Complex
34 km /21 miles north of Puno (35 minutes by car)
This complex stands on the shore of Lake Umayo. It is famous for its chullpas, large circular fortified burial towers for the main leaders of the early villages of the Collao plateau. Some are 12 meters high (39 feet), and remarkable for their shape, thinner at the base and wider at the top. Close to the archeological complex is the site museum where different pieces from the Colla, Tiahuanuaco, and Inca cultures are preserved.

University of San Agustín Archeological Museum
(Museo Arqueológico de la Universidad de San Agustín)
Intersection of Calle Álvarez Thomas and Calle Palacio Viejo. Arequipa.
Telephone: (054) 28-8881.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Fri. 8:15 A.M. – 4:15 P.M.
A varied collection is exhibited here including stone items, bones from human sacrifices, ceramic pieces from the Nasca, Tiahuanaco, Huari, and Inca, and objects of gold and silver from the Colonial and Inca eras.

University of Santa María de Arequipa Archeological Museum
(Museo de Arqueología de la Universidad Católica de Santa María de Arequipa) Calle Cruz Verde 303. Arequipa.
Telephone: (054) 95-9636.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Fri. 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. and 2:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
The museum has around 1000 pieces (ceramics, textiles, mummies, works of stone, wood, and metal) from the different cultural groups that inhabited the Department of Arequipa from 12.000 B.C. up to the time of the colony: Nasca, Tiahuanaco, Wari, Churajón, Acarí, Aruni and Inca as well as transitional and colonial materials.

Yaravi Ship Museum
Avenida Sesquicentenario 610, Sector Huaje. Puno.
Telephone: (051) 36-9329.
Visiting hours: Mon. – Sun. 8:00 A.M. – 5:15 P.M. Free admission
It is an iron ship built in Great Britain in the 1860’s that was transported from the Pacific coast to the High Plateau in pieces – 2766 in total. Inside, different accessories of the ship compartments are exhibited as well as documents, archives, historical maps, and models of that time.