Half Day Visit to the Museum of Art in Lima
Lima, Peru
Trip Type: Cultural Tours
Duration: Flexible
Enjoy a half-day visit to the Museum of Art of Lima. It maintains one of Peru’s broadest art collections, featuring work from pre-Columbian times to the present day. The museum’s many rooms are organized thematically, with many of the galleries featuring the crafts of pre-Columbian peoples. The permanent collection includes representative pieces by Peru’s dominant historical cultures, including the Moche, Vicus, Nazca, Chimú, Chancay, and Ica-Chincha.
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Enjoy a half-day visit to the Museum of Art of Lima. It maintains one of Peru’s broadest art collections, featuring work from pre-Columbian times to the present day. The museum’s many rooms are organized thematically, with many of the galleries featuring the crafts of pre-Columbian peoples. The permanent collection includes representative pieces by Peru’s dominant historical cultures, including the Moche, Vicus, Nazca, Chimú, Chancay, and Ica-Chincha.
Your tour will start at 10am with a pick up from your hotel to begin the visit to the museum. The Museum of Art in Lima maintains one of Peru’s broadest art collections, featuring work from pre-Columbian times to the present day. The pre-Columbian collection includes representative pieces by Peru’s dominant historical cultures, including the Moche, Vicus, Nazca, Chimú, Chancay, and Ica-Chincha. The Colonial Period includes many paintings and silver art representative of the colonial European influences on culture, politics, fashion, etc. The Republican Era features works that show the transition towards an independent nation, both from a cultural and artistic perspective.
Finally, there's the Contemporary and Modern time periods, which begins with the 1940s, a period that ushered in the country’s first modern art, and includes pieces by Peruvian artists working in a number of styles, notably abstract, postmodern, and Pop art, and paintings by such Peruvian masters as Macedonio de la Torre, Francisco Mariotti, and Jorge Eduardo Eielson. The museum holds a number of significant pieces by Fernando de Szyszlo, considered the father of Peru’s abstract movement.
At the end of your museum tour, you'll be able to transfer back to your hotel.
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