Good for: best museum
Not good for: There are no negatives
- Address
- Av Bolívar 1515 Pueblo Libre
- Transport
- from Arequipa in Miraflores marked 'Todo Bolivar'
- Website
- museolarco.perucultural.org.pe
- Phone
- tel, info: 01 461 1312
- Price
- adult/student US$8/US$4
- Hours
- 09:00-18:00 daily
Lonely Planet review for Museo Rafael Larco Herrera
An 18th-century viceroy mansion built on the site of a pre-Columbian pyramid houses the highly recommended privately-run Museo Rafael Larco Herrera , has one of the largest ceramics collections to be found anywhere.
It is said to include over 50,000 pots, many of which were collected in the 1920s by a former vice president of Peru. The first rooms resemble a storeroom, stacked right to the ceilings with an overwhelming jumble of ceramics. Further into the museum, the best pieces are displayed in the uncluttered manner they deserve. They include a selection of gold and silver pieces, feathered textiles and an astonishing Paracas weaving that contains 398 threads to the linear inch - a world record. But for all this, many tourists are lured here simply by the famous collection of pre-Columbian erotic pots that illustrate, with remarkable explicitness, the sexual practices of ancient Peruvian men, women, skeletons and animals in all combinations of the above. Photography is not allowed. Catch a bus from Av Arequipa in Miraflores marked 'Todo Bolivar' to Bolivar's 15th block. A painted blue line should link this building to the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arqueología y Historía del Peru, located a 10- to 15-minute walk away.
Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/peru/lima/sights/museum/museo-rafael-larco#ixzz2gGeBepFy
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