Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Archaeological and anthropological museum in the Historic Centre of Lima, Peru

The Museo de Arqueología y Antropología occupies part of the Casona de San Marcos, a colonial building in the Historic Centre of Lima whose stone portal is carved with the words PANTEON DE LOS PROCERES. Its rooms hold lithic, ceramic and organic pieces spanning about three thousand years of pre-Hispanic history, including Chavín and Paracas material.

The museum was created on 21 October 1919 as the Museo de Arqueología y Etnología, promoted by the archaeologist Julio C. Tello while Javier Prado was rector of the university. On 14 August 1947 it received Tello's own collection, known as the Archivo Tello. It occupies part of the Casona de San Marcos, a colonial building that was the university's headquarters from 1875 to 1966.

The permanent exhibition "Tesoros Arqueológicos", opened in 2023 for the museum's 104th anniversary, displays the so-called White Mantle of Paracas and Chavín vessels from Luis Guillermo Lumbreras's 1960s digs at Chavín de Huántar. The collections also include the Julio C. Tello collection, the Tello Archive received in 1947, and Arturo Jiménez Borja's musical instruments.

The museum occupies the Casona de San Marcos, the colonial building on the Historic Centre's University Park that also houses the university's cultural centre and art museum. Its online catalogue and photo repository let you look through part of the collections before arriving. The building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Historic Centre of Lima.

The permanent exhibition "Tesoros Arqueológicos", opened in 2023 for the museum's 104th anniversary, displays the so-called Manto Blanco de Paracas and Chavín vessels unearthed in Chavín de Huántar during Luis Guillermo Lumbreras's excavations of the 1960s.