Casa Museo Mario Vargas Llosa — Attraction in Arequipa

I loved this museum - it was like stepping through different movie sets and the lighting was superb. I was the only visitor, which made me think it’s under appreciated. The videos were high quality and the guide was excellent. It does help to have read some of Mario Vargas Llosa’s work. If not it might inspire you - he’s a Nobel prize winner and deeply humanitarian author. However some works are more accessible than others and many deal with difficult subject matter. Maybe start with Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, which is very funny and brilliantly captures the vibe in 1950s Miraflores, Lima. In fact, reading his work inspired me...

Selective, sycophantic and hagiographic. An unfortunate interactive format that, at some points, did not work and was just distracting. There is essentially nothing left of his home - all has been converted into a Disneyworld pastiche, in the service of the technology. An early low point was the virtual recreation of the moment of his birth (!!) that largely set the tone for the rest of the visit. Hard to imagine a more self-serving glorification. It did not inspire any of us to want to know more, much less read any of his work. Happy to leave and escape the...

Amazing experience. The museum is mostly and audio/visual tour of Vargas Llosa's life. However, it is done with different rooms set up to represent times and themes in his life. For example, one room is the inside of a Lima street car. Of course, there are lots of mementos, photos, and copies of his book. And the museum has his real Nobel medal. (They give every winner two of those.) The tours are only in Spanish. The woman who gave most of our tour spoke very clearly, however. The one member of our group with the lowest level of Spanish understood much of...