This museum is organized chronologically, by region as well. It flows well in the pre-Columbian section. There are signs in English (which have the standard second language errors) but are understandable. While the guides are not necessary, they do a decent job, add to the experience, and they have several languages available. More

They have a little bit of every historical period of the peruvian history, form the pre-incan cultures up to the republic. My sole regret is that almost everything is in spanish so, if you bring foreign friends either they must speak intermediate spanish to be able to understando wht the different objects and rooms are about or a native speaker... More

Read all of the previous reviews and saw great truth in all of them. Still, if you are interested in archaeology, who were the forerunners of the Incas, how the Incas managed to so quickly build one of the great empires of history and how they lost it, Spain's colonization of the New World, how Peru (and the rest of... More

The museum is divided into two parts. The first part is the pre-colonial section and you really need to know Spanish to get the most out of this part because very few of the placards are in English. The second section has more explanations in English, and as an American (and a history major), I knew more about the colonial... More

None of the placards were in english nor did they have any guides that I saw. They have some interesting artifacts - too bad my spanish wasn't better! More

I spent about 4 hours (!) inside. Ther'es a lot to see and I loved it all. If you are interested in the History of Peru (and South America), you must go there. More

Great information about the Peruvian Culture! The museum is quite big and well organised More

I have visited the Museum twice. It is a great place to begin or to conclude a visit to Peru. The archaelogical and anthropological wings give a very good chronological introduction to the most important Pre-Columbian cultures of Peru--the Inca were only the last to develop of probably hundreds--and contains many of the most important archaelogical finds in Peru, particularly... More