Museum of Contemporary Art in Cusco

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cusco, is located in the district, province and region of Cusco. This museum is located in the Historic Center of Cusco, just 1 block from the main square of the city. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cusco has a two-storey building, in which three exhibition rooms have been […]

Museum of Religious Art in Cusco

The headquarters of what was the former Archbishop’s Palace of Cusco, is today, the Museum of Religious Art of Cusco, and is located in the main square of this beautiful city. It is known that the Archbishop’s Palace turned into a museum, from the efforts made by Monsignor Ricardo Durán Flores, since 1966. It is […]

Machu Picchu Museum in Cusco

Undoubtedly one of the most important controversies in recent years -related to the return of cultural heritage- was the one related to the Hiram Bingham collection of Machu Picchu. After tense contacts and frustrated agreements, the differences were finally resolved thanks to a technical and scientific cooperation agreement, as well as the opening of an […]

Museum of the Santa Catalina Monastery

The Museum of the Santa Catalina Monastery is a historical-artistic collection; The convent was built in 1601 on the Acllahuasi Inca or House of the Chosen. Starting in 1975, he exhibited his collection of canvases from the Cusco School, which include paintings of the life of Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin Mary with Saint Joseph, […]

Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Cusco

The Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Cusco is a unique experience that allows the visitor to travel three thousand years into the past and meet the mythical creative spirit of the women and men who gave rise to the Empire of the Incas. The Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Cusco was born as an initiative […]

Inca Museum in Cusco

Museums are the center of collective emotions where the materialization of memory is housed, objects are its instruments and the museographic exhibition is the space where it is configured. Museums are places to encourage emotional and intellectual encounters with knowledge and collective expression; it is the living exhibition of culture, it is the soul of […]

San Cristobal Church in Cusco

The San Cristobal Church in Cusco is a Catholic structure of Colonial origin, which is located in the city of Cusco, in the province and department of the same name. The church was erected in the 16th century, and today it is part of the Cultural Heritage of the Nation, as a Historic-Artistic Monument. This […]

San Blas Church in Cusco

San Blas, is today a central neighborhood of the cosmopolitan city of Cusco, known as the “Artists Quarter”, with narrow and twisted streets, most of them steep; in the Incario it was one of the most important in the city and its name was “T’oqo-kachi” (“t’oqo”: hollow, “kachi”: salt); this neighborhood like the others was […]

Santa Catalina Convent in Cusco, Perú

The Santa Catalina Convent in Cusco, Perú is a fascinating church and convent with more than four centuries of history. Much of the convent is open to the public and allows visitors to learn about the lives of the nuns who live here and learn about the convent’s valuable collection of religious art. The Santa […]

Santo Domingo Convent Cusco

The Church and Santo Domingo Convent in Cusco is located in the district, province and region of Cusco. The temple of Santo Domingo, is an important construction, because it is built on an Inca structure: the Coricancha, also known as the Temple of the Sun, which shows it as one of the religious structures that […]