The 10 Best Art Museums in Peru, Peru

EKEKOS SAN BLAS - ARTE & COLORES is a store that keeps the best selection of Peruvian handicrafts such as alpaca and baby alpaca clothes and accesories, ceramics and the famous PUCARA BULL'S, handmade fabrics, besides providing historical and sentimental information Of each product.

This Cultural Center is a definitively unique centre to the entire area of Puno Region, dedicated to the protection and experience of local cultural heritage. We are an open-concept art restoration studio, a museum of historical Andean-Barroque artworks (restored paintings, sculptures, weavings and archealogical findings), and an art gallery that begins outside in along the pedestrian street.

A tour of all the stages of the Peruvian artist, from his beginnings in graffiti and muralism to his last works in oil paintings, which will be exposed to the public for the first time. The museum also has a shop and a small restaurant.

This art museum contains a vast collection of paintings and sculptures from Hilario Mendívil, a famous 20th-century religious artist from Peru.

This museum maintains an extensive private collection of colonial art featuring paintings, sculptures, silverware and furniture from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

The MALI’s permanent collection preserves more than 18,000 pieces –among textiles, ceramics, metal work, photography, drawings and paintings– that witness to more than 3,000 years of art history in Peru. The museum exhibits the artworks in the permanent galleries in a sequential way divided in four sections: pre-Columbian, Colonial, Republican and Modern art. It also has galleries for temporary exhibitions of national and international artists. MALI is located in the heart of downtown Lima and provides the opportunity for a first approach to Peru, through its great master pieces.

The Museum of Pre-Columbian Art - MAP Cusco is an experience that allows you to discover the mystical art of ancient Peru. It houses and exhibits admirable objects for its history and aesthetics, created by women and men of the Andes, more than three thousand years ago until the sixteenth century, in the territory where Peru is located nowadays. The 400 pieces exhibited in the MAP Cusco, located in the historic Casona Cabrera, a few blocks from the Plaza de Armas, are part of the collection of the Larco Museum, considered one of the best 20 museums in the world. The MAP Cusco, managed by the BBVA Foundation, offers the possibility of exploring its ten rooms with audio guides in three languages: Spanish, English and French. The narratives will bring the visitor closer to the worldview that defined the beliefs of the ancient Peruvians. The visitor can also enjoy MAP Café tasting the incomparable flavor of Peruvian cuisine in a magical and peaceful setting.

The Santa Teresa y San Jose’s Carmelitas Descalzas’s Monastery, from Arequipa, was founded in 1710, and since then remains in life, hosting a Community of Contemplative Nuns. In its more than 300 years of existence, the Monastery has been treasuring paintings, sculptures, furniture, metalwork, decorative arts, textiles, beautiful murals and objects of daily use from different periods, origins and artistic styles. In 2005, the Community of nuns decided to open a part of the monastery as Museum of Viceregal Art, exhibiting hundreds of objects of its valuable collection in 13 spaces of the old Cloister of the Offices. The Museum is thematic in most of its Exhibition Halls and is also a living museum, since several of the objects and environments are still used as they were more than 3 centuries ago.

Museo MATE houses a permanent collection of work by renowned photographer Mario Testino, in a restored 19th Century republican mansion, located in the heart of Barranco. A non-profit institution, the museum also showcases temporary exhibitions of local and international artists from a variety of disciplines; and offers dynamic artistic, cultural and educational programs.