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Lima

The Museo de la Nación

Address: Javier Prado Este 2465

Opening time: Tues– Sun 9am–6pm

Price: $2.20

Telephone: 4769878

The Museo de la Nación, situated in the suburb of San Borja just east of San Isidro, is Lima's largest modern museum and contains permanent exhibitions covering most of the important aspects of Peruvian archeology, art and culture. Built originally as the Ministry of Agriculture, it was transformed into a national museum by the then President Alan García in the late 1980s. Exhibits are displayed mainly in vast salons and include a range of traditional, regional peasant costumes from around the country and life-sized and miniature models depicting life in pre-Conquest times.