The museum itself is in this beautiful, neo-classical building, in the center of the Parque de la Exposicion and gardens. The second floor was closed but the exhibitions on the first were amazing and totally made up for it. The first was a Pre-Columbian exhibition of architecturally-based ceramic works, that acted as maps of sacred sites and important buildings. They all looked like strange little teapot houses, and all of them had perfectly round handles.
Central court yard of the Musem
The other exhibition was a collection of illustrations by Fernando Bryce. Two large rooms of sumi ink illustrations, drawn from photos, magazine pages, newspaper covers, letters & correspondence, documents, posters, ect. Each “group” of illustrations, every one containing about 200 images, had a theme, like “Peruvian Tourism” or “America & Globalization” or “The decades between 1900-1930.” The illustrations were beautiful and the display (I felt it very installation-like) was cohesive, painted a really amazing picture of the period of time or topic and almost overwhelming in its info, scope, and subsequent emotional impact. I loved it.
Outside the Museum was a park space
Caught a taxi to the hostel and called the Museo Amano, only to discover they were booked except for the one time Thursday I already had an appointment. Now I know I need to call a few days ahead next time I go to Lima.
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