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"Discovering Peru in Larco Museum The Larco Museum is the starting point of your visit to Peru. It has the largest collection of pre-Columbian pieces in the Americas and tells the history of Peru without being tiresome. That’s a feat in itself, because we’re talking about 10.000 years of history! Everything you’ll see in Lima and around the country will make sense after this visit. The quality and beauty of the pieces are amazing, showing all the complexity of the local cultures. It’s a beautiful museum, very well curated, the exhibits are simple and to the point and everything is explained in displays and videos. The museum offers also a super interesting guided visit for families with children. Other famous part of this museum is two private rooms dedicated to erotic pieces, showing the connection between erotic and fertility. By Manu Tessinari"

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"Discovering Peru in Larco Museum The Larco Museum is the starting point of your visit to Peru. It has the largest collection of pre-Columbian pieces in the Americas and tells the history of Peru without being tiresome. That’s a feat in itself, because we’re talking about 10.000 years of history! Everything you’ll see in Lima and around the country will make sense after this visit. The quality and beauty of the pieces are amazing, showing all the complexity of the local cultures. It’s a beautiful museum, very well curated, the exhibits are simple and to the point and everything is explained in displays and videos. The museum offers also a super interesting guided visit for families with children. Other famous part of this museum is two private rooms dedicated to erotic pieces, showing the connection between erotic and fertility. By Manu Tessinari"

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"Discovering Peru in Larco Museum The Larco Museum is the starting point of your visit to Peru. It has the largest collection of pre-Columbian pieces in the Americas and tells the history of Peru without being tiresome. That’s a feat in itself, because we’re talking about 10.000 years of history! Everything you’ll see in Lima and around the country will make sense after this visit. The quality and beauty of the pieces are amazing, showing all the complexity of the local cultures. It’s a beautiful museum, very well curated, the exhibits are simple and to the point and everything is explained in displays and videos. The museum offers also a super interesting guided visit for families with children. Other famous part of this museum is two private rooms dedicated to erotic pieces, showing the connection between erotic and fertility. By Manu Tessinari"

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Tony and Eric visited this museum of pre-Columbian Peruvian artifacts. While there, they went to the erotic gallery and looked at erotic pottery.

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Marie Zanoni-Begg

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I visited the Larco Museum a few weeks ago, and recommend it highly. So many interesting and beautiful artifacts. Hiro was our private guide, and he was engaging and informative. We learned so much in one hour! It's a great way to start a vacation in Peru, since you learn a lot of the history of the country. Also recommend having lunch at the museum restaurant after a tour. It's a lovely setting, and the food delicious.

Hong Qiu

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A beautiful museum to visit! It is relatively small, and has a good collection of precious artifacts. I especially like that: 1. the storage area of the museum is open to the visitors, where visitor can see thousands of the pieces in the museum 's collection but are not in the exhibit; 2. the museum garden is breathtakingly beautiful, and I'll rate its restaurant as the most romantic spot to have a meal or a cup of coffee/wine at Lima.

L M

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Whether you're only spending a few days in Lima or you call Lima your home, this is museum is a must. The museum reserves/storage area is so much fun - we took our time admiring the variety and sheer number of pieces. The gardens were great and all the exhibits quite interesting and well organized. One of the coolest museums we've seen in a while!

Cole Graham

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As a local guide, I can honestly say that this is a really beautiful museum with thousands of Anken and pre-Anken artefacts that were cautiously displayed in a beautiful home built in the early 1900s not to mention the flower garden in the courtyard was nice to walk around in and they were cool cats to take pictures of my favourite room was the overflow of in ceramics as there were so many wow here are some photos

Marco Badoino

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A beautiful museum with tons of artifacts of ancient Peruvian culture. They even publicly display their full collection of artifacts. You’ll have to stay for the restaurant because their food is top notch with great scenery of the garden. Definitely take a visit of the museum when you have the chance.

George Lin

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Everyone knows about the Incans but what about the art and sacrificial rituals of the Mochica, Chimú, Humaya, or Lambayeque… there’s much to see and can easily spend a few hours here. I recommend you join the guided tour, they give you an abbreviated view of the collection with good explainations. Don’t forget to visit the storage area. It’s quite a unique collection of pottery.

Rebecca Reynolds

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We can highly recommend this spectacular cultural treasure to visitors to Lima. We were treated to a fantastic tour of this fabulous Museum with Guide Joanna. We then enjoyed a delicious afternoon snack at the restaurant.

Arthur

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Very nice museum with a lot of pieces in display. It has a separated “sex” exhibition with items on how the Inca culture handled sexual activity. That was a first, never saw something like that in other museums. Also, it has an amazing collection of several thousand artifacts found in inca ruins. If you like history and the Inca culture this is a must-visit. The shop has some very nice item. Restaurant is expensive, but with good food.

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