The museum, created on August 4, 1993, comprises two exhibition halls that display cultural assets from the region. Its collection is made up of archaeological cultural assets of ceramics, textiles, metals, lithics, human remains, organic remains from the region, historical-artistic assets, and ethnographic assets linked to folklore, popular art and Huancavelican crafts.
It is located in the city of Huancavelica, near the square and church of San Juan de Dios; with an altitude of 3676 m.a.s.l., and; a temperate climate during the day and frigid at night.
The museum is dedicated to the Peruvian painter Daniel Hernández Morillo, currently it has spaces such as the archaeology room where samples of ceramic pieces and textiles from the intermediate period and late horizon are exhibited. It also features a series of metal accessories, mummies with cranial deformations and paleontological remains that contribute to the history of the formation of humanity. Another interesting room is the "Vicente Montes Cuchula" art gallery, where you can see art made with the different techniques of great painters of the region, such as the paintings of Daniel Hernández Morillo. We also find in the museum an area of ??interactive products with the aim of facilitating new experiences of our regional culture, such as the holographic pyramid, which consists of observing the ceramic archaeological goods with 3D effects through virtual reality lenses. The multimedia totem provides a personalized experience of your visit to the Museum, as well as the possibility of visiting the imagery of the samples of the main festivities of the Huancavelica region.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and the first Sunday of each month, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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The museum is where part of the history of the regional culture is kept
Roger Murillo Calderón, in charge of the Daniel Hernández Morillo regional museum in Huancavelica, spoke about the need for people to visit more places where history and culture are kept, the museums.
One of the main problems is that there is a resilience on the part of the visitors, the museum exhibits pieces of the regional culture. We try to achieve and influence so that there are more visitors.
We have an average of 2,500 visitors per year, as opposed to the 3,000 to 3,500 that they receive in Huaytará. We try to influence a greater promotion of the museum and raise awareness of the need to improve social welfare.
Knowing everything that our ancestors left us, here there is a rich collection of cultural goods at a pre-Hispanic level, which are exhibited in the archaeological room, which are a donation from Arturo Ruiz Estrada, deceased former San Marcos teacher, who left us this legacy for the knowledge of all Huancavelicans, and it is our duty to know where we come from and where we project ourselves.
We have a collection of mummies, the most representative and which is “the face” of the museum, is the Niño de Pultocc, a child found in the 80s near the Pultocc lagoon.
Generally the mummies here correspond to the late intermediate period, which is between 1100 and 1400 A.D. These mummies have a cultural affiliation with Los Chancas. The most representative ethnic groups in Huancavelica were the Anqaras, the Astos, the Chucurpus and other ethnic groups.
There are also other pieces in the museum, ceramic pieces, utilitarian pieces, weapons of war, mummies, deformed skulls, all of them correspond to different moments in the local and national culture. The weapons of war are elements after the arrival of the Incas.
I know that we have one of the most important art galleries in the central part.
That's right, there are few art galleries in Peru and Huancavelica has the luxury of having the collection of Mr. Vicente Montes Cuchula, who was a worker at the School of Fine Arts, who due to his charisma received gifts from artists and he wanted these pieces to be exhibited in a conditioned space.
They show the different cultural festivals that take place in Huancavelica, one of its characteristics is that there are dances that are declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation, for example, the festival of January 6 or the Niño Occe, the Carnival of Churcampa, Negritos de Huancavelica.
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