Top rated Museums in Lima, Peru to elevate your visit (Updated December, 2023)

Top rated Museums in Lima

Experience the best that Lima has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 78 places from Museum category.

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National Museum of Peru

Museum

👍👍 Excelente lugar, muy interesante y grandioso Recomiendo visitarlo en compañía de la familia 🤩

5.00 (739 reviews) (~27.49 km from centre)

Museo Jade Rivera

Museum

👍👍 Amazing museum and gallery! You have to check this out. It costs 10 soles to get in and is well worth it. The gallery is a cool story of Jade's artist journey in murals and graffiti. We bought a few prints and sculptures in the gift shop afterwards. The employees are really helpful too. Loved this...

4.80 (193 reviews) (~11.01 km from centre)

Larco Museum

Archaeological museum

Mansion-turned-museum featuring a collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, including ceramic erotica.

4.70 (12.6K reviews) (~3.5 km from centre)

House of Peruvian Literature

Museum

Large, architecturally notable library with a cafe offering exhibitions, programs & guided tours.

4.70 (3.3K reviews) (~2.35 km from centre)

Museo Pedro de Osma

Museum

Century-old mansion offering guided tours of colonial Peruvian artworks, gardens & grounds.

4.70 (1.4K reviews) (~12.23 km from centre)

Museo del Automóvil - Colección Nicolini

Museum

👍👍 One of the most amazing collections of classic cars , all privately owned by one guy , you have ever seen. Just superb !! Don't miss this must do day out

4.70 (804 reviews) (~15.99 km from centre)

Amano, Pre-Columbian Textile Museum

Museum

Venerable museum offering guided tours of pre-Columbian textile art & archaeological materials.

4.70 (751 reviews) (~7.41 km from centre)

Museo Contemporáneo Chavín de Huántar

Museum

👍👍 Parte de nuestra historia,un sargento 2do E.P.de género femenino es tu guía,es quién hace el relato de lo que realmente sucedió en la embajada de Japón ,el museo es una réplica,la cual se construyó con la finalidad de que soldados peruanos,en la especialidad de comandos,de grado oficiales y de las t...

4.70 (490 reviews) (~13.96 km from centre)

Museo Santo Domingo

Museum

👍👍 Me encantó el museo en general: hay mucha historia dentro de cada espacio, la arquitectura es hermosa, los guías son bien amables y te explican muy bien en cada momento de la visita. De verdad ha sido una muy buena experiencia en comparación con los museos de las otras iglesias

4.70 (203 reviews) (~2.08 km from centre)

Museo de los Colli

Museum

👍👍 Interesting, entertaining, enriching! Let's continue supporting. The government does nothing more than talk and promise to lift this important part of Peru's history. Let's visit, spread the word, make Peru great.

4.70 (191 reviews) (~15.42 km from centre)

Museum Lord of Miracles

Museum

👍👍 Museum of great religious and historical value for the city of Lima and Peru in general, since it explains the history of the cult of the Lord of Miracles and how today this cult has not changed, also showing every detail that it cares for, protects and accompany your walk through the city of Lima...

4.70 (99 reviews) (~1.39 km from centre)

Pinacoteca Municipal Ignacio Merino

Museum

👍👍 It is a fairly complete exhibition of Peruvian painters from the 19th century. Excellent guides, I highly recommend the guided tour. And best of all, it's free. Super recommended.

4.70 (41 reviews) (~1.42 km from centre)

Prehispanic Municipal Museum

Museum

👍👍 I liked the idea of the museum, it shows ceramics and history of some cultures that existed in Peru before being subjected to the Incas, I would like it to cover more cultures, given that there are only the Moche, Nazca, Chimu, Chancay and Lambayeque. You can also take more into account Lima cultu...

4.70 (38 reviews) (~2.41 km from centre)

Basílica and Convent of San Francisco, Lima

Convent

Baroque-style Roman Catholic church & monastery with a prominent library & underground catacombs.

4.60 (16.3K reviews) (~2.52 km from centre)

Huaca Pucllana Site Museum

Museum

Remains of a clay & adobe stepped pyramid from the Lima Culture (200–700 A.D.), plus tours & museum.

4.60 (14.9K reviews) (~7.25 km from centre)

Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM)

Museum

Exhibition space exploring the 1980–2000 conflict between terrorist groups & Peru's government.

4.60 (5.4K reviews) (~6.91 km from centre)

Catacumbas del Convento de San Francisco

Museum

👍👍 Was very cool, price is 20 Soles by card. The tour takes ~60 min and is included in the price, Spanish or English. I did Spanish even though my English is better and if you don't care much about deep long explanations you'll be fine. I waited a bit till the tour started, but was fast to buy ticket....

4.60 (2.6K reviews) (~2.47 km from centre)

Museo Metropolitano de Lima

Museum

👍👍 Amazing, historical place. Free entrence on sundays with the proffesional guide, but everything is on spanish. There is no option for english.

4.60 (1.2K reviews) (~2.24 km from centre)

Museo Central - MUCEN

Museum

Museum in a 1920s bank exhibiting pre- & post-Columbian artifacts, jewelry, paintings & more.

4.60 (854 reviews) (~2.17 km from centre)

Naval Museum Casa Grau

Museum

👍👍 Gracias al guía conocí un poco más de la historia de nuestro Perú y sobre la vida excepcional de nuestro Caballero de los Mares. Muy recomendado!

4.60 (444 reviews) (~1.82 km from centre)

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