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The Masks

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There are hundreds, no, thousands of masks and statues and other expressions of human faces in the Chilean and Peruvian museums, of great variety and  artistic value.
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The Museums

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Every town in Chile and Peru has one or more archaeological museums, many of which are true treasures of ancient art and artefacts.
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The Larco Museum, Lima

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Wonderful museum in Lima, showcasing the artistic highlights of the entire Precolombian history of Peru The Larco Museum is a private museum established in 1926, by Rafael Larco Hoyle. Larco started with a small collection he received from his father, and continued with purchasing further private collections of illegally acquired artefacts, of the sort dreaded [...]
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The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History, Lima

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Beautiful museum in the centre of Lima, focused on Peruvian Precolombian cultures This museum provides an excellent chronological overview of the various Pre-Colombian cultures of Peru, also going back 5000 years. Their exquisitely painted pottery demonstrates the significant differences between the cultures, from the finely decorated Nasca vases of 2000 years old to the more [...]
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The Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombiano, Santiago

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Fabulous Precolombian art museum in Santiago covering entire Latin America Sometimes referred to as “probably Chile’s best museum”, the Chilean Museum of Precolombian Art, does not only cover Chile antes de Chile (Chile before is was Chile), but also the rest of Latin America, all the way from Mexico down to the south. Aztec gold [...]
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55. Leymebamba

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Leymebamba is another wonderful village in the Utcubamba Valley, with lovely people and a lugubrious museum, as well as further buriaal sites in the neighbourrhood.
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50. the pyramids

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Outside Chiclayo are many remains of ancient, pre-Inca Peruvian cultures, who built earthen pyramids where they burried their elite, together with fabulous treasures, now to be admired in equally fabulous museums.
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26. the oficinas

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From most of the saltpetre oficinas is not much remaining, but the ghost town museum of Humberstone and Santa Laura is a wonderful example of how life must have been at the time.
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13. Vina del Mar

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There is not much to keep us long in overdeveloped beach resort Vina del Mar, except for the excellent Fonck Museum.
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Facing Fear in Museum De Fundatie

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The exhibition “Facing Fear” in the Dutch Museum De Fundatie brought together the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti and Lynn Chadwick. The connection, according to the curator, is the fundamental fear that controlled daily life in the post-war 1950s and 1960s, fear for a worldwide nuclear disaster. Perhaps. For the casual visitor of the exhibition this [...]
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    • the Okavango Delta March 4, 2021
    • a visit to Zimbabwe March 2, 2021
    • Nswatugi Cave March 2, 2021
    • Silozwane Cave March 2, 2021
    • Pomongwe Cave March 2, 2021
    • an excursion to Malawi February 26, 2021
    • an excursion to Rwanda February 25, 2021
    • Southwest Tanzania February 20, 2021
    • North Tanzania February 13, 2021
    • Zanzibar February 10, 2021
    • the south coast February 9, 2021
    • Mikumi and the Selous February 8, 2021
    • Bagamoyo February 6, 2021
    • Dar es Salaam February 6, 2021
    • The Peggy Guggenheim Collection December 19, 2020
    • Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice December 17, 2020
    • Museo di Castelvecchio November 30, 2020
    • What’s new? November 25, 2020
    • 13. looking back on Italy November 23, 2020
    • 12. Tuscany November 22, 2020
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