The Larco Museum also called Rafael Larco Herrera Museum which was founded in 1926 in the Hacienda Chiclín by Rafael Larco Hoyle in honor of his father, to preserve the archeology of the country.
14 years later is when Rafael Larco H. decides to move the museum to the city of Lima, starting construction on a pre-Columbian pyramid of the seventh century.
Today, the museum represents a great historical heritage with samples of over 4000 years that correspond to the pre-Columbian era. A place where we can find numerous collections of the Cultis Cupisnique, Salinar, Virú, Mochica, Chimú, Lambayeque, Chimú – Inca, northern Huari.