Museo Pedro de Osma, Colonial art museum in Barranco, Peru

The Museo Pedro de Osma is an art museum in the Barranco district of Lima, housed in an early 20th-century mansion set back from the street behind a garden. Its rooms display paintings, sculptures, silverwork, and furniture from the Spanish colonial period in Peru.

Pedro de Osma y Pardo commissioned this French-style summer residence in 1906, designed by Santiago Basurco, when Barranco was the Lima elite's holiday district. His son Pedro de Osma Gildemeister began showing his colonial art collection in the house in 1948. After his death in 1967 the property passed to his sister Angélica; the 1974 Lima earthquake closed visits, and in 1980 the house was declared a National Monument. Restoration under Eugenio Nicolini began in 1981, and the collection reopened as a museum in 1987.

The religious paintings from the Cusco School show how indigenous Andean artists interpreted European subjects in their own way, often adding local plants, animals, and faces. Looking closely at these works, a visitor can spot details that have nothing to do with European tradition.

The museum sits in the heart of Barranco, a walkable neighborhood, so it pairs well with time spent exploring the surrounding streets. Inside, there are stairs between the floors, and the garden is reached at ground level.

The museum occupies two buildings: the 1906 Osma family residence and a temporary-exhibition hall added in 1996, set among a park with marble statues and palms. The hall is climate-controlled at 22 °C and 50% relative humidity. The address is Avenida Pedro de Osma in Barranco.