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Larco Museum

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The Larco Museum (officially known as Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum, in Spanish: Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera) is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building. It showcases chronological galleries that provide a thorough overview of 5,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. It is well known for its gallery of pre-Columbian erotic pottery.

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Larco Museum
Jirón Navarra, Lima Metropolitan Area Pueblo Libre

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Jirón Navarra
15084 Lima Metropolitan Area, Pueblo Libre
Lima, Peru
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