PRE COLOMBIAN ART MUSEUM - Cusco

Located in Cusco city, La Casa Cabrera, where the museum is located, is one of the most peaceful and welcoming places of the city. Situated in the Plaza Nazarenas, it is only one block from the city's Main Square. The art works from the Pre-Columbian Art Museum were brought from the Larco Herrera Museum in Lima, founded in 1926 by the respected Peruvian archaeologist, Rafael Larco Hoyle. The Pre Colombian Art Museum was founded in Cusco in 2003, to house the first and only exhibition in Peru dedicated to high lighting the art created by ancient Peruvian civilizations.

Brief History

The house itself is an extraordinary structure denoting the history of urban architecture in the imperial city, from the Inca wall segments, that are still preserved, to the Republican balconies overlooking the courtyard. The house served as the headquarters of the convent of Santa Clara until the seventeenth century when it was bought by Don Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera y la Cerda, whose coat of arms appears on the doorway stone lintel. In 1981 the Continental Bank acquired the building and started restoration work, rescuing its former architectural features. In 2002, the Continental Bank signed a treatment with the Museum Larco in Lima to open this exhibition of the museum called Pre-Columbian Art Museum - MAP, in June 2003.