The Inca Museum Photo: Museum of the Inca

Enchants its visitors the Inca Museum, which is located in a beautiful colonial mansion of the XVI century to the northeast from Plaza de Armas. It is the best Museum in the city for those tourists who are interested in cultural heritage of the Incas.

On the stands of the Museum, founded in 1948, presented a restored artifacts unique collection of metal Handicrafts, ceramics, wood, textiles, and jewelry of gold and silver, mummies, musical instruments. In two halls of the Museum dedicated to coke (drug substance), explains that Coca - medicinal plant that to this day still cultivated Indian tribes Moche, the Chimu, Pukaras. In the Museum near each exhibit is detailed information. Visitors can also explore the Museum with guides with a guided tour in Spanish or English.

The Museum building, known as Admiral House, so called in honor of its first owner - Admiral Francisco Aldrete Maldonado, was badly damaged during an earthquake in 1650 and subsequently restored Pedro Peralta de Los Rios Earl Laguna de Cancale, the emblem of which is shown above the porch. The mansion is built of hewn stone, its massive staircase decorated with sculptures of mythical creatures. In the courtyard of the Museum of the descendants of Andean weavers demonstrate their skills and sell traditional textiles made by their own hands.

Currently, the Museum has more than 9 600 artifacts of the Inca culture, of which are demonstrated in the exhibition halls just over 600, but the exposure is changed every six months. In the Museum workshops are held in its laboratories conduct research scholars of the National University San Antonio Abad de Cusco.

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