Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco

Really beautiful place is 10 soles for Peruvians, I like the organization, the introduction video explains very good all the culture and is a good introduction about the things you can find here.

As a ceramic artist, I found this museum to be incredibly curated, and overall a wonderful insight on how different communities in Peru expressed their ideas and identity building through art. The museum focuses on three main components of indigenous ideology, the things represented by and associated with the sky, underground, and in between, earth. The story telling mostly follows this narrative along with the duality of life. These are the strings that tie together the art in the museum, along with geopolitical explanations that relate to allyship and military strategy. The mediums on display are materials that can face the test of time - gold, silver, petrified wood, stone, and ceramic. Aside from a small section upstairs, you won’t find any paintings or textiles. The craftsmanship is really admirable, something even contemporary artists struggle with using the same mediums and current technology. I would say it is the best museum I have visited in Cusco, definitely worth it if you like this type of art and narration.