Larco Herrera Museum

The Larco Museum is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of , . The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building.
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  • Opening hours: 9:30 AM—10:00 PM
  • Email: webmaster@museolarco.org
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: archaeological museum in Lima, Peru
  • Also known as: “Larco Museum”
  • Address: 1515 Avenida Simón Bolívar, Pueblo Libre
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru and Mateo Salado.

Museum
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The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru is the largest and oldest museum in , housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of , Peru. is situated 1 km southeast of Larco Herrera Museum.

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is situated 1¼ km northeast of Larco Herrera Museum.

Shopping center
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is a shopping center, which is situated 1¼ km west of Larco Herrera Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Lima and Lima.

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Western Lima includes the Chorrillos, San Isidro, Magdalena del Mar, Pueblo Libre, San Miguel districts of Lima, to the south of the Rimac River and west of Av. Arequipa. The related districts of , and have their own pages.

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is the capital of and its largest city. Founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the modern city is a curious mix of the modern mega city with some 'islands of modernity', large but orderly slum areas and colonial architecture in downtown.

Quarter
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is a in . It is the southernmost area of the district. It limits to the north, with the historic centre of Lima; to the east, with ; to the south, with ; and to the west, with . is situated 4 km east of Larco Herrera Museum.

Larco Herrera Museum

Latitude
-12.07276° or 12° 4′ 22″ south
Longitude
-77.07092° or 77° 4′ 15″ west
Inception
1926
Open location code
57V4WWGH+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 387071625
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1954240
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Larco Herrera Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف لاركو”
  • Armenian: “Լարկոյի թանգարան”
  • Belarusian: “Музей Ларка”
  • Catalan: “Museu Arqueològic Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Chinese: “利馬拉爾科博物館”
  • Chinese: “利馬拉科博物館”
  • Czech: “Larcovo muzeum”
  • Dutch: “Larco Museum”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Larco”
  • French: “musée Larco”
  • French: “Musée Larco”
  • French: “Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • French: “Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • German: “Larco Museum”
  • German: “Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון לארקו”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Larco”
  • Italian: “Museo Larco”
  • Japanese: “ラルコ博物館”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Larco museum”
  • Polish: “Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Russian: “Музей Ларко Эрреры”
  • Russian: “Музей Ларко”
  • Russian: “Ойле, Рафаэль Ларко”
  • Spanish: “Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Spanish: “Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Spanish: “Museo Larco”
  • Swedish: “Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”
  • Ukrainian: “Археологічний музей Рафаеля Ларко Еррери”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Ларко Еррери”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Ларко”
  • “Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera”

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Highlights include Parque Chavín and Parque San Carlos.

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