Larco Museum
Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera Museo Larco | |
Entrance to the museum | |
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| Established | July 28, 1926 |
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| Location | Av. Bolivar 1515 Pueblo Libre Lima, Peru |
| Coordinates | 12°04′21″S 77°04′15″W / 12.072496°S 77.070862°W |
| Type | Archaeological museum |
| Director | Andrés Álvarez Calderón |
| Website | www |
The Larco Museum (officially known as Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum, in Spanish: Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera) is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building. It showcases chronological galleries that provide a thorough overview of 5,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. It is well known for its gallery of pre-Columbian erotic pottery.