H/D Peruvian Gold Museum tour

This museum, located in the area of Surco, Lima, was founded in 1968 by the Peruvian businessman and historian Miguel Mujica Gallo and is considered today the 2nd. most important Gold collection in the Americas after the one in Bogota. It's divided into two levels, in the basement you'll find a display of more than 8, 000 pieces including 3,500 made of gold, silver and copper of different Peruvian pre-Incan civilizations like the Mochicas and the Lambayaques. You'll see pieces of jewelry like crowns, earrings, bracelets, necklaces and nose pieces that were worn by former nobles and leaders during rituals and ceremonies to please their principal Gods and divinities. We are also going to visit the "Mummies Hall" where 04 mummies from the northern and southern part of the country can be found buried in different positions as well as the world-famous Paracas elongated skulls which was a practise done in the past in Peru to demostrate a higher status and hierarchy.