Larco Museum

The Larco Museum deserves all the praises it gets. It is a fantastic private museum with a very reasonable ticket price of 40 Soles (about 10 USD) which gives you access to the whole museum, comprising at least 10 different large rooms, an incredibly rich "storage" collection of thousands and thousands artefacts from pre-Columbian and pre-Inca civilizations and even a separate exhibition on sexuality. The museum is housed in the former Larco mansion, which is beautiful, and on the premises you can also find a very nice cafe-restaurant. The explanation of both artefacts and civilizations are available in many languages (which is not common in Latin America) and the lighting of the artefacts is very effective, scenic and modern. It is a bit less "didactic" than other museums, so if you already have a grasp of pre-Inca civivilizations it would be easier to follow along and see how their culture evolved and their art transformed. In the small public park in front of the museum there is a statue of the museum founder, archaeologist Rafael Larco Hoyle. Highly, highly recommended.