The Larco Museum is wrapped in bougainvillea, three stories high and as many colors as I have ever seen. It also has many other types of flowers, a fine restaurant and of course the museum. Our meal was superb and we were able to eat outside enjoying the flowers and cool breezes. The museum houses the collection of 5000 years of Peruvian culture. From pottery to silver and gold fetishes and royal ornamentation. The collection started with 600 pieces that were passed down in the family to Rafael Larco Hoyle who expanded it by buying up collections of 600 and 8000 pieces. It soon outgrew the first location and is now housed in a 18th century Vice Royal House. There was an erotic exhibit that showed the wide extent of the Pre-Inca civilizations ceramic description of their sexual belief systems. We have never seen anything so extensive and accessibly displayed. This was the first museum to open up its storehouses as well as the display pieces
We have arrived at an impressive entryway
So much beauty
A large cactus growing up from a level one floor down
Our dining room
Ferns and hanging lanterns everywhere
Is this a bloom in the center of this 10 foot diameter plant
Every chair is different
Weebles wobble...
The bar is ready
To mix up a drink or a hundred
Lovely sights everywhere. Unbeknownst to us, over Leslie's shoulder on the right side of the picture, is Eduardo's daughter
They even bottle their own water
Some bubby my lady?
This one is bubbly, the fist bottle was not so it went back
Why yes indeed
Seafood rice
Slow cooked chicken
One happy guy!
The chef is hiding
Here is the picture that Eduardo's daughter took of us. He got a good laugh when he sent us this picture. He said that his drome was looking all over Lima and found us at the Larco Museum Restaurant. That freaked us out more than a little.
Tinkuy is my new favorite word!
From the oldest and most basic male...
and female figurines
To highly detailed vulva-head people
A fine penis jar
Even the folks in the afterlife have a sex life
The artistry is amazing
More amazing beauty
Red is the color of the day!
Owl you doin?
A monkey?
A crab jar
Something out of Monsters Inc
they even had molds to mass produce ceramics
This is portrait quality
I love this one!
One cool cat
Snake or snakes putting the squeeze on
Jaguar putting on the fatal bite
Armadillo
The reference library within the museum
This was a huge display
Evidence of brain surgery that healed over
The men's room
The ladie's room
A gold plaque
This headdress would be hard to wear on a windy day
Gold fever
This is the only complete set of ceremonial garb in the world
The storehouses are also on display
Stone points
A liberal application of lipstick
The fine details are hard to fathom
jar after jar after jar
Ducky
Blam! another great bloom
and another one
This one is scary
Looking down towards the restaurant
Another pretty flower, Miss Leslie!
Dense with color
Here is the humming bird
A Shaman jug and a reflected beauty
Face tattoos never go out of style
Dental work was not as easy to come by back then
Even the dead are getting in on the jug
In the gift shop a reproduction from the erotic exhibit
Here are where the kites take off, just north of the Lovers Park
Every park was full of people enjoying their Christmas
People everywhere
The sunset is looking to be a nice one
Great
Greater
Greatest!
