Casa Museo Ricardo Palma, House museum in Miraflores, Peru.
Casa Museo Ricardo Palma is a rancho of 468 square metres built in adobe in 1912 in Miraflores, Lima, and opened as a museum in 1969. It displays furniture, objects, paintings, photographs and personal documents of the Peruvian writer Ricardo Palma, author of Tradiciones Peruanas, and also has an auditorium and a research centre on his life and work.
The adobe rancho was built in 1912 and rented by Ricardo Palma, author of Tradiciones Peruanas, who lived there with his daughters from 1913 until his death in 1919. The house was declared a National Cultural Heritage site and opened as a museum in 1969. In 2019 the Municipality of Miraflores carried out its restoration.
The museum is named after Ricardo Palma, author of Tradiciones Peruanas, and its rooms display furniture, paintings, photographs and personal documents linked to him and his daughters, who lived here with him. It also houses an auditorium and works as a research centre on his life and work.
The house stands at 468 square metres in Miraflores, in Lima province, and is reached on foot from the surrounding streets. It opened as a museum in 1969 and was restored by the Municipalidad de Miraflores in 2019, so check current opening arrangements before setting out.
The house is a rancho built in 1912 from adobe, covering 468 square metres, and Palma rented it rather than owning it. It was declared a National Cultural Heritage site, and the Miraflores municipality restored it in 2019.
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