Gold Museum Tour
1 Day from $ USD 100.00
Gold Museum Tour
Introduction
During the Lima Gold Museum Tour, you will observe the private collection of Peruvian Miguel Mujica Gallo, a tribute to the pre-Columbian cultures that developed in the coast, highlands and jungle of Peru.
It contains materials such as gold, silver, multiple textiles, burial bundles, ceramics, mummies and many other objects from the Inca period.
This unique collection was donated to the Peruvian state to be preserved and open to the general public. Among these pieces are objects dating back to the Inca Empire belonging to the different emperors who chose this powerful empire. Similar Pachacamac Tour.
Trip Details
- Daily Departures
- Departure time 09:00 – 14:00
- Duration Half Day
- What to bring: Comfortable shoes Jockeym Sun block lotion Water, Weather Subject to weather conditions.
- Cancellation policy 48 hours
- Recommendations for the road
- Warm clothing – hat, gloves, scarf, windbreaker jacket.
- Waterproof clothing especially in the rainy season from January to March.
- If you don’t have it you can rent it in Cusco.
Highlights
- 1 hour is usually needed to visit all rooms.
- Miguel Mujica Gallo was a rich Peruvian collector of antique gold and war artifacts. Some of these artifacts are real gems, made hundreds of years ago.
- The Museum exhibits gold pieces from the Vicus, Chancay, Nasca, Chimu, and Inca Cultures.
- This is one of the most interesting museums in Lima and travelers who want to learn more about Peru’s history.
Itinerary
GOLD MUSEUM TOUR
Pick up from the hotel at 14:00 if your hotel is located in Miraflores, if the hotel where you are not located in this area, we can meet at a nearby meeting point.
Gold Collection:
In the showcases of the “Gold Museum of Peru” we can appreciate the master work of the ancient Peruvians in a masterful way they were specialists in embossing, laminating, engraving, soldering and alloying gold, mainly in pre-Inca gold, in the museum we can appreciate ornaments of all cultures such as openwork nose rings, embossed, with cut stone flaps, with filigree games, with figures of birds, men or monkeys, mantles, bracelets, earrings and Vicus depilators; lizards, weasels, felines, coca bags, earrings and belts from Frias; pectorals with zoomorphic motifs, plain or embossed crowns from Chancay; funeral masks, with twisted rays or snakes, from Ica; masks with open and jagged mouths, wristbands, shin guards and spatulas from Nazca, use is amazed with all this collection of gold.
Pre-Hispanic Textiles:
Then we make a tour of a pre-Hispanic era we will find a great variety of, looms, feather weavings, vessels, huacos and ceramics that represented the customs of the Andean peoples As well as some of the mummified characters.
Weapons:
We also find in the rooms of this museum weapons from 1,200 B.C. uniforms corresponding to men of war from various times and places, horse saddles, spurs, armor and objects that marked history. It is certain that the visitor will find in our rooms a wide sample capable of developing an awareness of what was ancient Peru and the rest of the world.
Physical Level
1, Easy
- Pick up from your hotel
- Tourist transportation
- Professional English or Spanish speaking guide
- Guided visit to the Gold Museum
- All entrance fees
- Transfers to your hotel
- International flights
- Meals not mentioned in the program
- Personal expenses
- Tips
What to Bring
- Light clothing for the day
Recomendations
Passport and entrance tickets: For the Gold Museum Tour, it is important to carry your passport and entrance tickets. In addition, it is very important to have an original and valid passport.
Climate in Lima: In Lima, summers are hot, sultry, arid and cloudy and winters are long, cool, dry, windy and mostly clear. During the course of the year, the temperature generally varies from 15 °C to 27 °C and rarely drops below 14 °C or rises above 29 °C.
Bring: Light clothing, depending on the season, consider winter and summer very definite, camera, sunglasses, sunscreen.
Pricing List
What to Bring
- Light clothing for the day
Mario Ordoñes Quispe Salvida
In Cusco, I am your travel specialist, with more than 10 years of experience organizing adventure trips.
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