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April 8, 2016
Fun Photo Friday — Museo Larco Favorites
Museo Larco
Hope you enjoy our recent tour of Museo Larco in Lima, Peru. Here are some more of my favorite images from this stop:
Museo Larco
Museo Larco
Museo Larco
Museo Larco
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April 6, 2016
Museo Larco Gold, Grounds, Grub, Gifts, and Groans
Museo Larco Gold
Advanced, well-armed Spain wanted gold. Primative South and Central American indigenous people had gold. And for the next couple of hundred years following Columbus this dynamic drove the conflict between these two groups resulting in the decimation of the latter.
Museo Larco Gold
Lustrous, luxurious, glistening, gleaming gold. Gobs and gobs of glorious gold. Enough gold to drive an empire. And that’s just in this museum.
Museo Larco Gold
No wonder Portugal wanted in on the a...
April 4, 2016
Museo Larco Potter and Brain Surgery
Stirrup-Spout Vessel
There is a lot of pre-Columbian pottery on display in Lima’s Museo Larco. Above is a stirrup-spout vessel, a design that originated some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago in South America.
Stirrup-Spout Vessel
These main vessels were pour-cast in a mold, and the stirrup-shaped spouts were handcrafted and attached to the main vessels. The exteriors were then decoratively finished.
Stirrup-Spout Vessel
Not all ancient Peruvian pottery on display at Museo Larco is functional. Some ex...
April 1, 2016
Fun Photo Friday — Some Museo Larco Favorites
Fluffy Greets Her Owner
Below is a shot taken from the Museo Larco’s pre-Columbian sports car gallery. By the way, I’ve decided to give up blogging after today.
From Museo Larco’s Pre-Columbian Sports Car Gallery
Yeah, right. Happy April Fools’ Day.
We’ll continue our tour of Museo Larco next week before continuing on to other sights in and around Lima. Until then, here are today’s Fun Photo Friday shots:
Larco Museum
Museo Larco
Museo Larco
Museo Larco
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March 30, 2016
Stepping Back into Time at Museo Larco
Pre-Columbian pottery
The gallery exhibits of Museo Larco are chronologically ordered, so each area takes the visitor through ever-later periods of Peruvian history.
Tower of Bowls
Exhibits include everything from basic pottery bowl to pottery works of art. There are even galleries devoted to pre-Columbian erotic pottery and gold artifacts, a glimpse of which I’ll give you next Wednesday. There are also exhibits displaying more useful items, such as arrow and spear tips.
Arrow and spear heads...
March 28, 2016
The Flowers of Museo Larco, Lima
Museo Larco founded in 1926
Museo Larco is a logical stop when visiting Lima, Peru. This museum dedicated to pre-Columbian art (meaning before Christopher Columbus’ visit to the New World in 1492) was founded in 1926, and today Museo Larco contains artifacts spanning some 4,000 years of Peruvian indigenous history, and cultural displays going back another 6,000 years before even that.
Museo Larco flowers
But before you get to all that history you’ll pass through the gardens of Museo Larco, in...
March 25, 2016
Fun Photo Friday — Lima Favorites
Plaza San Martin panorama
Here is today’s slide show of Lima favorites:
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March 23, 2016
Historic Center of Lima, Peru — Part 2
Plaza Mayor panorama
On Monday I presented to you some images of Plaza Mayor and Plaza San Martin in Lima, Peru. Today we’re going to enjoy a few more images of both plazas as well as another image or two nearby.
Plaza San Martin
Plaza San Martin derives its name from a historical figure we’ve discussed previously from this voyage — Argentine General José de San Martin. San José de San Martin was an instrumental figure in South America’s struggle for independence from Spain. There is even a s...
March 21, 2016
Historic Center of Lima, Peru — Part 1
Plaza San Martin
The Golden Princess departed San Martin shortly after our return from our excursion to Islas Ballestas. The next morning we arrived at the seaport of Callao, which serves Lima, the capital of Peru. The architecture here is stunning. Here you see some of the buildings surrounding Plaza San Martin:
Plaza San Martin
Plaza San Martin
Lima is also famous for its balconies, many of which date back to when Peru was a Viceroyalty of Spain. Here are some examples:
Example of Lima’s fa...
March 18, 2016
Trinitite from Trinity Site
Don’t steal the trinitite
Trinitite is the glassy substance that resulted from the atomic bomb test at Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, on July 16, 1945. It’s somewhat rare, hard to get hold of, and illegal to acquire directly from Trinity Site. If you want a legal piece, you must acquire it from someone who collected a sample before trinitite harvesting from Trinity Site became illegal way back in the 1950s.
Plaque explaining radiation levels at Trinity Site — Yes, it’s L-O-W
Triniti...
