Museo Larco & Lima's Pre-Columbian Art Collections

The Museo Larco (the private museum of pre-Columbian art in the Pueblo Libre district of Lima — the finest pre-Columbian art museum in the world, with a collection of 45,000 objects spanning 4,000 years of Peruvian civilizations) is the essential museum for understanding the extraordinary artistic and cultural achievements of the ancient Andean civilizations that preceded the Incas — the Moche, the Chimú, the Wari, the Tiwanaku, and dozens of other cultures.