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Inkariy Museum

Inkariy Museum, Art museum in Calca District, Peru.

Inkariy Museum is an art museum in Calca with nine exhibition rooms showcasing ancient Peruvian cultures from the Caral period through the Inca Empire. The collection includes sculptures, dioramas, ceramics, textiles, and archaeological artifacts from multiple cultures across this timespan.

The idea for the museum arose in 2002 with the Mérida family, children and grandchildren of the artist Edilberto Mérida, advised by archaeologist Bruno Alva; the museum itself opened in June 2014. In 2015 it clashed with the Ministry of Culture over an 11-metre sculpture of an Andean deity installed without authorisation in the Sacred Valley, a cultural landscape since 2006; a fine of 4 UIT followed and appeals were rejected in 2016 and 2018. In August 2018 it joined the National Museum System.

The museum's name, Inkariy, refers to the Inca ruler, and the nine rooms follow a chronological route through the Caral, Chavín, Paracas, Moche, Nazca, Wari, Lambayeque, Chimú and Inca cultures. Displays rely on ceramic replicas, infographics, scale models and dioramas rather than original artefacts, and the project was advised by archaeologist Bruno Alva.

The museum stands in Calca District, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, at coordinates roughly 13°19′ S, 72°00′ W. Visits take place during the day; the site lies along the road linking Calca and Urubamba, so it can be combined with a drive through the valley.

In 2015 the museum installed an 11-metre sculpture of an ancestral Andean deity not tied to the Inca worldview; because the Sacred Valley has been a national cultural landscape since 2006, the Cusco culture directorate fined the Mérida family 4 UIT, and appeals were rejected in 2016 and 2018.

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Carretera Vía Urubamba km53, Calca 08121
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