The Chavín National Museum was inaugurated on July 18, 2008. It has thirteen permanent exhibition halls and two for temporary exhibitions. Its implementation arose from the need to generate the technical, environmental and exhibition conditions to guarantee the adequate research, conservation and preservation of its important cultural legacy. The architectural design is inspired by the Chavín tradition and was executed with the determined support of the government of Japan. It brings together a great diversity of assets from the Chavín culture, one of the most complex and important in pre-Hispanic Peru, mostly from The Chavín National Museum was inaugurated on July 18, 2008. It has thirteen permanent exhibition halls and two for temporary exhibitions. the Chavín Archaeological Monument, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. The museum collections are made up of various cultural assets of fine ceramics, the famous carved heads whose sculptures decorated the main temples, and lapidary, among which the Tello Obelisk stands out, which synthesizes the Chavín religious conception, in addition to the pututos or trumpets from the Gallery of the Shells. It is one of the most important national museums in the country and plays an active role in the dissemination of the material and immaterial cultural heritage of the region, in close collaboration and participation of the local community.
The Chavín Archaeological Monument, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985, has a national museum that reflects the grandeur of the archaeological monument and this culture.
Opened on July 18, 2008, created with the objective of preserving, researching and disseminating the Chavín culture, the National Museum has two large integrated and independent environments: the Exhibition and Services Area (with public access), and the International Research, Conservation and Restoration Center – CIICR – (with restricted access). In turn, each of these areas is subdivided into a collection area and an area without collections, which is linked to the issue of control and security of the same.
Exhibition and Services Area: linking with visitors and the town. This will allow a greater number of pieces to be preserved and displayed to the public, and also offer visitors a set of additional services.
Linked to the Exhibition and Services Area, there will be the International Research, Conservation and Restoration Center – CIICR. In it, the actions of study and conservation of the collections will be carried out, temporary exhibitions and educational resources will be scheduled.
Thus, in the Chavín National Museum, the movable cultural assets that have been recovered both in the area of ??the archaeological monument, as well as those that have been found in the town, are exhibited and studied, from the time when it was first excavated by Dr. Julio César Tello Rojas until the present. Therefore, in this new and fabulous museum we will be able to appreciate the Tello Obelisk, the pututos, the nailed heads, the ceramic vessels, etc.; in short, a whole set of cultural objects that reveal the high degree of development that our Andean culture reached, represented, in this case, in Chavín.
From Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The modern Chavín de Huántar National Museum has 14 exhibition rooms, within which at least 282 archaeological pieces from the Chavín de Huántar complex are distributed. Among the pieces exhibited in the museum rooms, a replica of the Raimondi Stele stands out, which could not be added to the original complex due to its fragility.
Anyone who wants to visit the current Chavín National Museum can do so by going to 17 de enero Avenue. Admission to the museum is free and it is open every day, except Mondays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The museum was created in 2008 with the help of the Government of Japan. This museum was built with the intention of helping to preserve, as well as to disseminate, the findings obtained from the Chavín de Huántar Ceremonial Center, as well as the archaeological complex itself. It is known that the pieces that initially made up the Chavín National Museum belonged to the old museum of the same name, which was unfortunately destroyed after a flood that occurred in the 1940s.
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