Museo de los Colli, Archaeological museum in Comas district, Lima, Peru.
Museo de los Colli is an archaeological museum in the Comas district of Lima, Peru, displaying finds from the local Chillón valley area. The collection includes original ceramics, maps, and scale models of an ancient hilltop fortress, all sourced from the surrounding region.
Enrique Niquin began exploring archaeological sites in the area in 1965 and spent decades gathering finds from across the Chillón valley. In 2003 he founded this museum to give those objects a permanent home where they could be shown together.
The museum focuses on the Collique people, a group who lived in the Chillón valley before the Spanish arrived and made ceramics with their own distinct forms and patterns. Visitors can look closely at these objects and get a sense of how people in this area organized their daily lives.
The museum is on Calle Atahualpa in Comas and is easy to reach on foot from the main streets of the neighborhood. Staff on site can walk you through the collection and explain the context behind the objects on display.
The entire collection was gathered by a single person who explored the sites of the region alone for nearly 40 years before the museum opened. Many of the objects on display were found at spots that Niquin himself identified and documented over that time.
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