Museo Oro del Perú y Armas del Mundo — Attraction in Lima Metropolitan Area

A global traveler’s immersion into Peru’s Golden Treasures. It’s a great museum, thanks to foresight and generosity of Sñr Miguel Mujica Gallo whose personal collection has become a national treasure 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪that now educates the world of ancient Peruvian cultures.

The collection is very well curated, with annotations of the periods and tribal identities 👏👏👏.

The golden artifacts illustrates why there was so much greed of the Imperial Conquistadors that drove them to enslave indigenous peoples of the Old World.

So varied golden treasures😎😎😎😎😎, from personal adornments to practical home utensils like cups and goblets to deities to tribal symbols including crowns and headgears.

In addition to the gold, the museum also carries pottery. Like the gold, each of the pottery is a tribal pride and of daily importance to peoples’ lives.

The other half of the museum is a curation of military arms/armaments and uniforms. Perhaps the most interesting are the medieval armory and the collection of daggers and swords.

Some of armory are pieces art themselves, the most eye catching are the collection of Japanese Samurai.

THIS NATIONAL TREASURE NEEDS MORE PUBLICITY. We only saw this by chance looking for things to do in...

This museum is not locate in the tourist area of Lima about 15 minutes from Miraflores. It have a good representation of the pre-hispanic pieces of jewerly and different objects belonging to Moche, Lambayeque, Vicus, Chimú,Chancay, Nazca and Inca Cultures. The showrooms have a wide range of main objects among which can find a variety of vessels that Incas used in rituals and religious activities, a variety of mummies from the central coast of Peru; likewise, metal pieces from the Lambayeque Culture and prehispanic textiles and pottery.

The most impressive is the MUSEO ARMAS DEL MUNDO: “Arms of the World Museum” exhibits over 20,000 weapons from all over the world and from different periods, being this museum one of the most complete collection of its type in South America. Firearms, such as daggers, swords, guns, rifles, rapiers, etc., form our collection; additionally, side arms, missile weapons, and large contusion weapons are exhibited in...

Many of the existing reviews get it right. It is an interesting place to visit. There are many many many guns. I don't really like guns, but it's interesting seeing artifacts of human history. Or obsession with guns goes back as far as humans do, for the most part.

It is difficult to figure out what some of the things are since they don't have labels, and it sounds like the guides can be somewhat helpful but they are very expensive. The one that was available to me when I was buying my ticket, which was about $10 us or so, was $50 US Mas o Menos. maybe that's worth it, maybe I should support the local economy more by hiring these folks, but listening to what they had to say, by overhearing it it didn't seem like there was much additional elimination as to the artifacts, which are Sensational, especially when you go downstairs into the Gold Room. It's in the vault.

Pictures didn't seem to be a problem, and so I took 64 of them. I hope...