The BBVA Peru Foundation, in partnership with the Larco Museum in Lima, created the Pre-Columbian Art Museum of Cusco (MAP Cusco), with the aim of presenting to the world the artistic manifestations created by women and men of Ancient Peru, between the 9th century BC and the 16th century.
The chosen location for the implementation of the MAP Cusco was the Casa Cabrera, which during the Incanate functioned as a yachaywasi or school for the children of the nobility, and later, in the first years of the Viceroyalty, as the convent of Santa Clara. In the 17th century, the mansion was acquired by Don Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera y la Cerda, whose noble coat of arms is preserved on the stone doorway.
In 1981, BBVA Perú acquired the emblematic site located in the Plazoleta de Las Nazarenas, one block from the Plaza de Armas, and carried out a rigorous and intensive restoration work that rescued its original architectural features.
Today, the MAP Cusco exhibits 403 pre-Columbian and Inca pieces from the collection of the Larco Museum in Lima, selected for their aesthetic value. The collection is distributed in ten rooms located on the two floors that make up the Casa Cabrera and in it the visitor discovers, through objects mostly for ritual use, worked in stone, clay, wood, seashells and metals, expressions of Andean art many centuries before the concept of art itself had been invented.
Operation Hours
Every day except Sunday, from 10 am to 4 pm
Entry Cost
General admission S/10 - Foreigners S/20 - Peruvian students S/5 - Foreign students S/10 - Admission is free for Cusco residents.
The Collection
The pieces on display at MAP Cusco are part of the collection of the Larco Museum in Lima, internationally recognized as one of the best in the world. The material used to create the pieces in the remote Andean world has a symbolic meaning in itself. The element builds bridges between man and his gods and his worlds.
The Origins Room
The first communities with their own identity
Wood Room
The element of the ancestors
Shell Room
The element to preserve or reproduce mythical stories
Silver Room
The feminine element of nature
Gold Room
The connection between the different worlds
The South Room
The Nasca and Paracas cultures
The North Room
The Mochica culture
The Center Room
The Huari culture
Before the Incas Room
The Chancay and Chimú States
The Incas Room
Imperial expansion
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Best Tours in Cusco
Many are the routes that take you to Machu Picchu, but none is like the Inca Trail Tours, the most famous pedestrian path in the Americas. After flying from the capital of Perú, Lima, you will arrive in Cusco to walk for four days along a path through forests and dense fog, millenary stone steps and discovering the ruins of ancient fortifications and Inca cities, and all the time enjoying majestic views.
- Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu 5 days
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