Museo Regional de Ica, Archaeological museum in Ica, Peru.
Museo Regional de Ica is an archaeological museum that displays thousands of objects from different pre-Hispanic cultures of the region. The collection includes ceramics, textiles, and human remains that span various time periods and societies.
The museum was established in the mid-20th century as one of Peru's early institutions dedicated to studying pre-Hispanic history. Its growth was shaped by local archaeologists who built up the collections over decades.
The collection includes everyday tools, musical instruments, and knotted records that reveal how people in this region lived and worked. These objects show the skills and traditions that mattered in daily life and ritual practice.
The museum is in Ica, on Ayabaca street, where it moved in 1971; it is not in Lima's San Isidro district. It has two exhibition halls, Anthropology and Bioanthropology, so a visit can be planned around those two rooms. The building reopened in May 2016 after remodeling financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Some of the most important textile collections came to the museum through international returns, showing the global attention these artworks have received. These pieces are now viewed as treasures of the region's past.
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