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Amano Museum
A nondescript building on a quiet street in Miraflores is home to a museum not to be missed by anyone interested in textiles and ceramics. Amassed by a Japanese immigrant, the Amano collection contains pre-Inca cloth and objects, including statues...
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Colección Enrico Poli
The most controversial museum in the city, the Colección Poli is a private museum of incredible pre-Columbian artifacts and colonial treasures, including furniture, paintings and jewelry. The son of the original collector greets you at the town house gates, which...
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Huaca Pucllana Ruins
In the heart of the Miraflores district of Lima, the Huaca Pucllana is a clay pyramid that once functioned as an important center of Lima Culture, an indigenous civilization, over 1,300 years ago. Indagare can arrange tours of the ruins...
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Indagare Tour: Cooking Classes
Lima, Peru has one of the most dynamic and up-and-coming culinary scenes in the world and travelers should immerse themselves in this vibrant foodie culture. Indagare can arrange cooking classes with one of Lima’s culinary experts who can guide travelers...
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Indagare Tours: Casa Aliaga
Indagare can arrange tours of the opulent Casa Aliaga, one of the oldest colonial mansions in South America that was built on land given to the Aliaga family by Francisco Pizarro in the 16th century. The unassuming façade belies the...
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MATE Asociacion Mario Testino
World famous fashion photographer Mario Testino set up this collection to pay homage to the artists of his native country. Set in a lovely colonial house in the Barranco district, the MATE Asociacion also contains works by its founder.
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Museo Larco Herrera
If you have time to visit only one museum in Lima, it should be this. Founded by Rafael Larco Hoyle, a wealthy Peruvian with an interest in archaeology, it contains more than 45,000 pottery vessels, textiles and gold and silver...
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Museo Pedro de Osma
Just a block from the Museo MATE, the Pedro de Osma museum is housed in a gracious mansion dating to the early 1900s and displays the religious art collection of the wealthy owner. From fine paintings to intricate artifacts studded...
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Museum of Gold
These treasures, all donated by one Peruvian collector, are well organized and also include an arms collection. The English audio tour, which is included in the price of entry, is well worth using.
Lima

Lima’s historic center, declared a UNESCO World heritage Site in 1988, has been gentrified, with new streets, newly painted buildings and new shops and cafés, making it a place that even Lima residents will consider visiting for an evening. Among the must-sees in the city center: the Cathedral of Lima on the Plaza Mayor; the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa Convent (where some of the dates on the tiles go as far back as 1606), and the Santo Domingo Convent with its cloisters and the paintings in the chapels of Saint Thomas Aquinas; arcades inspired by the Galleria in Milan; Casa Aliaga, built for Jerónimo de Aliaga, a viceroy of Francisco Pizarro, with wonderful woodwork and paintings, and where seventeen generations of the family have lived since it was built in 1535; the Saint Francisco Basilica and Monastery, whose vast cloisters and catacombs make this a city unto itself.