Founded in 1926, the Larco Herrera Museum showcases remarkable chronological galleries providing an excellent overview on 3,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. Located in a unique vice-royal mansion of the 18th century built over a 7th century pre-Columbian pyramid, it features a famous erotic archaeological collection. For an unforgettable experience, Larco Herrera is one of the few museums in the world where visitors can also choose to enter the storage area with its 45,000 classified archaeological objects.
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History is the oldest state museum in Peru. Its importance is rooted in the vast and varied cultural patrimony housed in its exhibition and store rooms. Ceramics, textiles, metals, organic materials and litchis related to invaluable human remains preserved with techniques that still surprise specialists, make up the legacy of our pre-Hispanic past. Objects of historic-artistic value and documentary, photographic and bibliographic collections given to the library tell of the Colonial and Republican Periods.