Larco Museum

Rafael Larco Herrera Archaeological Museum
Larco Museum

Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera Museo Larco
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Established	July 28, 1926 (1926-07-28)
Location	Av. Bolivar 1515 Pueblo Libre Lima, Peru
Coordinates	12°4′20.99″S 77°4′15.10″W / 12.0724972°S 77.0708611°W / -12.0724972; -77.0708611
Type	Archaeological museum
Director	Andrés Álvarez Calderón
Website	www.museolarco.org

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.