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Lambayeque Museo Arqueologico
Nacional Bruning
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ABOUT LAMBAYEQUE - The Rough Guide to Peru:
Lambayeque is an old colonial town that must have been a grand place in the seventeenth century but fell into decay in the twentieth. It's now, however, showing signs of recovery, not least because of its important museums and its vibrant Sunday market. Of the town's buildings worth seeing, the early eighteenth-century church of San Pedro...is still holding up and is the most impressive edifice in the town with two attractive front towers and fourteen balconies. But the dusty streets of Lambayeque are better known for their handful of colonial casonas, such as La Casa Cuneo and a few doors down La Casa Descalzi, which has a fine algarrobo doorway in typical Lambayeque Baroque style.Lambayeque's main draw however is its two fantastic museums. The oldest, though quiet new itself, is the modern Museo Arqueologico Nacional Bruning. Named after its founded, an expert in the Mochica Language and culture, the museum possesses superbe collections of early ceramics, much of which has only recently resurfaced and been put on display. This museum has just re-opened bringing from its vaults some of the fine ceramics found over the last hundred years or so in the region, and having lost its most recent main collection to Lambayeque's new jewel, the Museo de las Tumbas Reales de Sipan, which opened in 2002.
This stunning new museum is an imposing concrete sculpture-like construction in the form of a semi-sunken or truncated pyramid, reflecting the form and style of the treasures its holds inside. This mix of modernity and indigenous pre-Columbian influence is a fantastic starting point for exploring the archaeology of the valley. You'll need a good hour or two to see and experience all the exhibits, which include a large collection of gold, silver and copper objects from the tomb of El Senor de Sipan, including his main emblem, a staff known as El Centro Cuchillo, found stuck to the bones of his right hand in his tomb. The tomb itself is also reproduced as one of the museum's centerpieces down on the bottom of the three floors. The top floor mainly exhibits ceramics and the second floor is dedicated to El Senor de Sipan's ornaments and treasures.
ABOUT THE MUSEO DE LAS TUMAS REALES DE SIPAN - compliemts of InkaNatura:
Latin America’s most spectacular new museum is named “the Royal Tombs of Sipan” , after the world-famous burial chambers discovered beneath ancient adobe pyramids on Peru’s northwest coast. The three-story, six-million-dollar museum, which contains by far the greatest intact discovery of gold artifacts in the Americas, is shaped like the pre-Columbian pyramid under which Peruvian archaeologists discovered this amazing tomb in 1987 (cover stories in National Geographic Magazine in December 1987 and March 1989.
The Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum is considered as one of the biggest museum in Latin America dedicated to a single archeological discovery and one of the newest museums in the world by Art News magazine from New York.