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Cusco
Museums
Museo Historico Regional Casa Garcilaso
Heladeros Street - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-3245
Monday - Sat: 8 am - 5 pm
This museum is in the colonial Casa Garcilazo de la
Vega, the house of the historian who is buried in
Cusco's Cathedral.
The chronologically arranged collection begins with
arrowheads from the Preceramic period and continues with
a few pots of the Chavin, Vicus, Mochica, Chimu, Chancay
and Inca cultures. There is also a Nazca mummy, a few
Inca weavings and some small gold ornaments excavated
from Coricancha and from the Plaza de Armas in 1996
while the fountain was being renovated.Also on display
are a few dozen paintings from the Cuzco School and
pieces of colonial furniture.
Museo de San Jerónimo
Plaza de San Jerónimo - San Jerónimo - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-3245
Paintings and furniture of the Cuzqueño school of
painting.
Museo de
Arte Religioso del Arzobispado
Calle Triunfo. Archbishop's Palace - Cusco.
Mon - Sat: 8 am - 11:30 am and 3 pm - 5:30 pm
Originally the palace of the Inca Roca. It used to be
Archbishop's Palace. There are some impressive ceilings
and the curious sala de Arzobispos (Room of Archbishops)
filled with jovially grinning life-size models of these
men.
The museum houses an impressive collection of religious
painting of the Cuzco School, including some by Diego
Quispe Tito, the 17th century Indian painter widely
regarded as the Master of the School.
Museo
del Convento de San Blas
Plazoleta de San Blas - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-2781
Religious Art.
Museo Convento de la Merced
Mantas 121 - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 23-1821
Padre Salamancal mural; paintings of the cuzqueño school
of painting
Museo
Arqueológico de Qoricancha
Block 3 of Avenida Sol - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-2071
Daily: 9:30 am - 6 pm
Admission: $1.60
This small modern underground museum is in front of the
Church of Santo Domingo and is entered from Avenida Sol.
There are various archaelogical displays such as pre
inca stone and ceramics, Inca wooden and metallurgic
crafts among others exhibits.
Museo Convento San Francisco
Plazoleta de San Francisco - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-1361
Religioius Art and Linens.
Museo
Inca de la Universidad del Cusco
Cuesta del Almirante 103 - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 23-7380
Located at El Palacio del Almirante ( The admiral's
place)
Monday - Sat: 8 am - 5 pm
Admission: $1.70
The museum has been recently renovated and features
excellent exhibits of mummies, trepanned skulls, Inca
textiles. It has 450 queros (Inca wooden drinking
vessels), which is the largest quero collection in the
world.
Museo de la Catedral del Cusco
Plaza de Armas s/n - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-2781
Religious Art.
Museo
de Arte del Convento de Santa Catalina
Santa Catalina 190 - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 22-6032
Mon - Thurs and Sat: 9 am - 5:30 pm. Fri: 9 am - 3 pm
This museum has a splendic collection of paintings from
the Cuzquena School, as well as an impresive renaissance
altarpiece and several gigantic seventeenth century
tapestries depicting the union of indian and spanish
cultures.
Museo
de Arte Precolombino
Plaza de las Nazarenas - Cusco.
Phone: (084) 23-3210
Admission: $4.20
This museum was founded in June 2003 to showcase a
varied collection of 450 archaelogical pieces that were
previously buried in the vast storerooms of Lima's Larco
Museum.
Museo Centro Andino de Tecnología Tradicional y Cultura
de las Comunidades de Ollantaytambo "CATCCO"
El Parador Casa del Horno. Calle Vetidero -
Ollantaytambo - Urubamba.
Phone: (084) 22-3627
A view of Ollantaytambo and its region, archaeology,
craftsmanship, agriculture and believings.
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