Cusco is one of the most visited destinations by tourists that the city has many places to visit and learn about their culture, could not lack museums. These, oriented to show various aspects of Pre-Inca, Inca, colonial and republican culture, are distributed throughout the city. Venture to know them, after your visit to them you will not fail to thank us.
This house, one of the most beautiful in Cusco, has its origins in the time of the Incas, where it was the Puka Marka, the palace of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, son of the great Inca Pachakuteq, builder of Machu Picchu. Destroyed twice by earthquakes, the mestizo-colonial architecture of the mansion dates back to the end of the 18th century and is characterized by its double-wide stone arches on the second floor and single arches on the second floor. In the 20th century, the house served as an army barracks and then as a police station, before being handed over by the government to the National University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco.
This museum is notable for its picturesque balconies, it was the residence of José de Santiago de Concha, a notable aristocrat during the early days of the conquest. One of his descendants, Martin Pio Concha, was the last governor of Spanish Cusco in the 19th century. It currently belongs to the San Antonio Abad University of Cusco and houses the archaeological pieces found by Hiram Bingham in Machu Picchu, recently brought from the United States.
The collections of the Machupicchu Museum at the Casa Concha consist of a permanent exhibition open to the public of some 350 pieces, and another 45,000 pieces in closed deposits, including ceramic, lithic, and bone fragments - including 177 partial human skeletons. The permanent exhibition gathers ceramic objects, metals and stones, mostly of Inca manufacture, the result of an excavation in Machu Picchu conducted in 1912. In addition, there are Inca materials acquired locally; ceramics, textiles and silverware on loan from other museums; and ceramics found in excavations carried out in the context of the restoration of the Concha House at the beginning of the 21st century. The museum opens in November 2011, to receive and present to the public the Machu Picchu collection of Yale University, whose return to Peru had been negotiated over several years.
F2MF+365, Sta. Catalina Ancha, Cusco 08002
Hours of operation: monday to saturday from 9:00 to 17 hrs.
Foreigners: S/ 20.00
Nationals: S/ 10.00
Foreign students: S/ 10.00
National Students: S/ 5.00
It offers visitors a beautiful collection of archaeological objects from pre-Inca and Inca cultures, as well as a select collection of colonial paintings that show us the success achieved by Cusco artists. The collections of pre-Hispanic archaeological cultural goods show the Andean cultural development, covering all the periods of the Andean civilization: Pre-ceramic, Formative Period or Early Horizon (Marcavalle and Chanapata), Middle Horizon (Wari), Late Intermediate (Killke and Lucre) and Late Horizon (Inca).
As for the Viceroyalty, Republican and contemporary collections, there are works of painting and sculpture of the so-called Cusco School, including those of Diego Quispe Tito, Pablo Chillitupa and El Maestro de Almudena. It also has remarkable sculptural works, including five reliefs of the Italian Jesuit layman Bernardo Democritus Bitti and the sculpture of a "Crucified Christ", which was present at the sentencing and dismemberment of Tupaq Amaru II in the main square of Cusco.
Heladeros 165, Cusco 08002
Hours of operation: Monday to Sunday from 08:00 to 18:00 hrs (no calendar holidays).
Entrance included in the Tourist Ticket.
It was founded in 1995 from the sponsorship of its Mayor and the donation of 100 works of local artists by the collector Dr. Luis Rivera Dávalos. At the present time it has more than 280 works of renowned local, national and foreign artists. Its oldest work is an oil painting by Remigia Mendoza: "Río Vilcanota" (1897). It has three exhibition halls in the Municipal Palace, one in the Chapel of San Bernardo and an exhibition of handicrafts in the main courtyard of the Municipal Palace.
Permanently exhibits the works of his collection and performs annually more than 50 temporary exhibitions, individual and collective, of renowned national and foreign artists. Likewise, National and International Salons and Events, Latin American Meetings of Plastic Artists and other activities. Art in Cusco does not only go back to its Inca or colonial ancestors, but also survives through the production of its contemporary artists.
The Museum is open every day of the week Monday to Saturday from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm.
The Museum of Popular Art of Cusco belongs to the American Institute of Art, an ancient and traditional cultural organization of the city, which founded the Jubilee Week of Cusco and rescued the Santurantikuy fair from disappearance.
It has some of the best pieces of Cusco's popular art since the 1940s, most of them systematically acquired at the Santurantikuy Christmas fair. In the collection are pieces of the outstanding masters: Hilario Mendívil and family, Edilberto Mérida, Nemesio Villasante, Santiago Rojas, Luis Acosta, Jesús Latorre, Antonio Olave, among others.
It shows works such as, sculptures, ceramic works, photographs and other works of the most renowned artisans of Cusco such as: Edilberto Mérida, with his sculptures of grotesque art made in clay, Hilario Mendívil, his made in rice dough, religious style; its most important feature are the images of elongated necks with drawings of flowers, the most characteristic are the Virgin of Bethlehem and the Holy Family. There are also works of Santiago Rojas with representations of the daily life of the inhabitants of Cusco (typical for the feast of Santuranticuy December 24), with typical dances; another important artisan is Follana with his children Manuelitos, made in maguey and glass palate being representative of the Child of the Thorn. Antonio Olave, is also a recognized artisan with his art of gold leaf in the confection of children for Christmas nativity scenes.
Hours of operation: Monday to Saturday 8:30 to 6:00 hrs. - Sundays and holidays 8:00 - 1:00 hrs.
Included in the Tourist Ticket.
It was formerly the "Amaru Cata" or "House of Knowledge", the school of the Incas, built almost two centuries ago. In 1550 the Spanish conquistadors, skilled at superimposing their culture and religion on top of the foundations of others, turned it into a religious retreat house and later into the Monastery of Santa Clara. In the 17th century it was acquired by Luis Jerónimo Cabrera, whose surname has remained on the property to this day.
This historical monument was acquired in 1981 by Banco Continental. Revived and refurbished in its 2000 square meters by the BBVA Foundation, the Cabrera House became the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art of Cusco, the first and only Peruvian museum dedicated to highlighting the art of the ancient cultures of the country.
The museum exhibits in an orderly and evolutionary way: a Wood Hall, a Nazca, a Mochica, a Huari, a Chimu, an Inca, a Viceroyalty and also the Gold Hall and the Silver Hall.
The 403 works of art span from 1250 B.C. to 1532 A.D. and were selected from a universe of 45,000 objects belonging to the Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum in Lima. The museography and lighting are spectacular because they highlight the beauty of the painting, sculpture and ceramics of the Peruvian prehistory in the 11 rooms of the museum.
Hours of operation: Monday to Sunday from 9:00-22:00 hrs.
General admission S/ 20.00 - Students S/ 10.00
It has a stone perimeter wall and inside is a large Renaissance courtyard with stone arches and tiles on the walls and adorns the middle of the stately pool located in a preferential place. Recognized because within its walls is the "Stone of the 12 Angles".
In addition to having one of the most emblematic stones of the city of Cusco "stone of the 12 angles". The Museum of Religious Art houses a collection of religious colonial paintings. You can also admire the Moorish style doors, carved cedar ceilings and spectacular stained glass windows.
Monday to Saturday 8.00 to 18.00 hrs.
Tickets included in the religious ticket.
The enclosure that currently occupies this museum, was called in Inca times the Acllawasi or House of the Chosen Women. In it, the most beautiful women of the empire were confined, some of whom had to dedicate themselves to the cult of the sun and others to the service of the Inca, as well as to textile work and the culinary arts.
The Monastery of Santa Catalina was founded in 1601 in the city of Arequipa, but was soon moved to Cusco because of a series of devastating natural disasters that occurred in that city in the early seventeenth century. The initiative of the foundation belonged to the widow Lucía Rivera de Padilla, owner of a great fortune. In February 1605 the first 25 professed nuns arrived in Cusco.
The museum offers an exquisite colonial architecture that corresponds to the last stages of the Renaissance, with the presence of Roman-style arches. It has paintings of the Cusco school of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, huge tapestries of the colonial era and, highlighting all, the chapter house where you can admire the colorful colonial paintings.
Hours of operation: Monday to Saturday: 08:30 to 17:30 hrs.- Sunday: 14:00 to 17:00 hrs.
Adults S/ 8.00 - Students S/ 4.00
It is a small museum that has five rooms where the history of the ancestors who lived in these lands is explained didactically, with pre-Inca, Inca and colonial pieces, mostly from the excavations carried out in the Koricancha (in Quechua Qorikancha, "courtyard of gold"), during the period 1992-1995.
Shows the chronological evolution of civilization in Cusco. It exhibits fragments and ceramics from the Inca period as well as samples of metallurgy, textiles, painting, sculpture, musical instruments, etc. It also presents a model of what could have been the Qoricancha. There are also replicas of the objects found in the excavations carried out in the place, samples of ceramics, lithic pieces, of the pre-Inca and Inca periods. It has five rooms where the history of our ancestors is explained didactically.
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 8.00 to 17.00 hrs. - Sundays from 14.00 to 16.00 hrs.
Included in the Tourist Ticket.
It is one of the most remarkable colonial houses in Cusco. Built in the early seventeenth century, with Inca stones, by the lieutenant corregidor Francisco Aldrete Maldonado, called the Admiral, who lived there until his death in 1643. It was rebuilt by Pedro Peralta de los Rios after the earthquake of 1650 and was again restored by the San Antonio Abad University of Cusco after the earthquake of 1950. Nowadays it shows the coat of arms of its reconstructors, who added the attractive plateresque façade that it has today, as well as its great courtyard of arches and the coffered halls.
It houses a vast collection of keros (carved wooden ceremonial vessels), textiles, mummies, and solid gold and silver idols, as well as Inca weapons, tools and ceramics. Its architecture shows the magnificence of the colony, such as the exterior balcony whose central column is in the shape of a caryatid. It belongs to the National University San Antonio Abad of Cusco and has an enviable collection of archaeological pieces of the Inca culture.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday: 08:00 to 18:00 hrs.
Saturdays and holidays: 09:00 to 16:00 hrs.
Adults S/ 10.00
In the center of the city of Cusco there are 3 venues (2 ChocoMuseums and a Chocolate factory), where you can live a fun and special experience. In our Chocomuseums you can learn all about the process of making chocolate, as well as learn all about the cocoa bean, its cultivation and what kinds exist in Peru; besides knowing its fascinating history since pre-Columbian times and its passage through the last centuries.
But not everything is learning and discovering in the Chocomuseo, you can also live fun experiences like participating in the "bean to bar workshop" where you can prepare and take home your own chocolate from the cocoa beans, learning the whole process; or the version for children in a "mini workshop" where you can do it with the youngest of the family.
ChocoMuseo: Calle Garcilaso 210, Int. 216 (2nd floor)
Factory: Plaza Regocijo 216
Stone of the 12 angles: Hatunrumiyoc 48
Along with foods such as quinoa and corn, Peruvian coffee has won international awards and worldwide recognition. The quality and delicious flavor of the beans are generated by the shaded cultivation in the Amazon rainforest. Learn more about the Peruvian coffee culture and its importance in the gastronomy of the region.
For many people, a dream afternoon is composed of a good coffee and a fun activity. In fact, there are millions of people who every day look for their cup of coffee to start the morning. Although some people claim that coffee is harmful, the truth is that it has many properties that accelerate our metabolism, keep us awake and even help us with our intestinal flora.
In addition, another point in favor of delicious coffee is that there are hundreds of types, and that consumers can opt for the type of coffee that they like and that best suits their body. From slimming coffees, to highly concentrated coffees and others that are completely light, there are infinite possibilities. Even today there are large coffee companies such as Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks that have managed to capture a large coffee-loving public, all thanks to their great popularity.
In Cusco Coffee Museum interesting information is shown Address:
F28Q+Q7Q, Bariloche, Cusco 08007
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