This museum was created on 1946, Its prestige is based on the collections that offers to his visitors. It was the first Peruvian museum which paleopatológicos studies about the pre-Hispanic human rest. It displays a collection of spare Paracas cultures, Nasca, Huari, Ica and Inca. Out stand funeral mummies and looms from Paracas, skulls with presence of surgery and deformed skulls, this remains show the high technology in surgery reached by the ancient Peruvian civilizations. It also contains paintings and collections from the colony, independence and republican times.
It is possible to emphasize that many of their pieces of the museum have been exposed in different places of the world.
