Museo de Sitio Huaca Pucllana

Visits

Daytime schedule: Monday - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday closed Wednesday - Sunday - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closing holidays: January 1st, Holy Friday, May 1st, July 28th, December 15th and Election days. Rates:

• Adult: S / .12.00
• Children up to 12 years old: S / .6.00
• Senior student and teacher (with current identification): S / .6.00
• Older adult (with DNI): S / .6.00
• Scholars: S / .1.00
• Special guided service per group: S / .20.00 To benefit from the reduced rates, visitors must present a document proving their condition. Free admission applies only to accredited people, does not extend to their companions.

Guided: The general guide service is included in the ticket price. It will be carried out in groups formed by order of arrival, in English and Spanish. It includes the visit to the exhibition room and the tour of the archaeological site. Visitors who require it may request a special guide in English or Spanish with a cost of S / 20.00, in addition to the corresponding ticket fee. The guides in other languages (French, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese) have a cost of S / 20.00 for groups of up to 25 people, and will be carried out with prior reservation (huacapucllana@miraflores.gob.pe). External guides can access with their groups as long as they are accredited by the Museum. The group will pay the corresponding rate for each visitor. Groups For the visit of groups or delegations over 20 people, it is recommended to make a reservation in advance (huacapucllana@miraflores.gob.pe), so that efficient attention can be guaranteed. The members of the groups will pay the individual rate corresponding to their situation, and S / 20.00 for the special guidance, as long as they do not exceed 25 people. For larger groups, the simultaneous tour with several guides will be carried out, paying the corresponding rate for each one of them.

Night Schedule Attention: Wednesday to Sunday from 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Rates:

• Adult: S / .15 soles
• Older adult with DNI and children up to 12 years old: S / .7.50 The night visit does not include climbing the pyramid for the safety of the visitors.

The Huaca Pucllana Site Museum, inaugurated in 1984, is the natural and coherent consequence of an uninterrupted process initiated in 1967 with the first intervention carried out by Dr. Isabel Flores at the invitation of the Mayor of Miraflores. In 1981, fulfilling the commitment acquired a year before between the INC and the Municipality of Miraflores, the Huaca Pucllana Research, Conservation and Valorization Project was initiated. The archaeological investigation, the increasing abundance of materials from the excavations, and an attentive and demanding urban scenario, converged for the construction of a space capable of housing the recovered movable heritage, of projecting itself to the community through diverse activities and of the enabling a circuit of visits in the same place; and to revalue what until then was considered a "mound of dirt and rubbish", to be erected as one of the most representative monuments of the Lima Culture and an example of cultural management at national and international level.

The exhibition room has 76 original archaeological objects presented in thematic spaces that show the different occupations of the Ceremonial Center. The visitor will be transported to the time of construction of the main structures of Huaca Pucllana, will know the most important aspects of the daily life of Lima society and the contrast of them with the rituality of the activities of a religious center such as the cult of the sea and its creatures, the importance of shark in the Lima worldview, human sacrifices and large banquets, prologue of important remodeling, ceremonial vessels and aspects related to death. Later, he will observe the drastic changes that occurred with the Wari expansion, and how these are reflected in the funeral contexts, which in Huaca Pucllana make up an elite cemetery. Finally, he will observe the last occupation of the site, that of the Ychsma society, more discreet in magnitude, but of great importance as evidence of the historical continuity of the site over the centuries. Everything as a preamble to a visit to the archaeological monument itself, where the materials will be presented in their original contexts, and visitors will be able to see at first hand the constructive techniques that allowed the preservation of the structures for 1500 years; the ritual spaces will come alive with the representation of the activities that they carried out, the main occupations will be included in their different physical and chronological spaces, and they will know the Native Flora and Fauna Park, with traditional food, medicinal and industrial plants and animals, living examples of the resources used by the Lima and recovered in the excavations.