The Museum was built with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation and officially inaugurated on August 25, 1984. It is located next to the Sechín archaeological zone. Through a chronological sequence, the cultural development of the Casma Valley is narrated, represented by various cultural assets recovered in the archaeological research projects carried out in Cerro Sechín, Sechín Bajo, Sechín Alto, Las Aldas, Pampa Colorada and Moxeque.
It is located next to the Sechín archaeological zone. Through a Chronological sequence narrates the cultural development of the valley of Casma, represented by various recovered cultural assets in archaeological research projects carried out in the Cerro Sechín, Sechín Bajo, Sechín Alto, Las Aldas, Pampa Colorada and Moxeque.
It was built by the Sechín Project of the Catholic University of Peru with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation and officially inaugurated on August 25, 1984.
The museum currently presents a large exhibition room, where you can see a sequential and orderly sample of the main pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited the Ancash coast; Likewise, there is relevant information and various cultural assets recovered in the archaeological research projects on the archaeological sites of Cerro Sechín, Sechín Bajo, Sechín Alto, Chanquillo, Las Aldas, Pampa Colorada and Moxeque, which have the support of models, reproductions to scale, drawings, aerial photos, mural photos, the most striking being the model of the interior of Cerro Sechín made on a natural scale, as well as replicas of the clay masks found by Julio C. Tello in Mojeque. Currently, the visit to the Casma Max Uhle Regional Museum is part of the visit to the Sechín Archaeological Monument, since with the same ticket you can visit these two tourist resources.
Friedrich Max Uhle (1856 - 1944), the undisputed "father" of Andean archaeology, is also the initiator of systematic excavations in the countries of this region. Uhle did not remain behind the revolutionary movement in archeology that operated during the second half of the 19th century on the European continent, since his university training in Leipzig and Göttingen nourished him with the greatest scientific advances of the time. As soon as he graduated with a doctorate in letters, with a thesis on preclassical Chinese grammar (1880), he began working as an assistant curator at the Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnological Museum in his hometown, Dresden, the admired "Florence on the Elbe." ".
During those years Uhle must have fallen under the influence of the work of Wilhelm Reiss and Alphons Stübel, Das Totenfeld von Ancón in Peru (3 vols., 1880-87), which represents the first detailed report on an archaeological excavation in the Peru; This piece aroused considerable attention in the circles of past researchers, raising special interest in the Andean area as a field of study. Furthermore, our character felt the personal encouragement of Stübel, who lived in Dresden and knew the restless assistant very closely, "to whom he inspired inspiration to unravel unpublished truths in these lands."
Moving with a similar rank of assistant to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin in 1888, Uhle entered under the fortunate tutelage of the director Adolf Bastian, who was an anthropologist and traveler knowledgeable about South America, author of Die Kultur-länder des alten Amerika ( 3 vols., 1878-89). Almost immediately after his move to Berlin, he had to make his debut before the community of Americanist scholars, participating as a speaker and as secretarial assistant at the Seventh International Congress of Americanists, which was held in 1888 in the Prussian capital. Bastian then commissioned this disciple to come and investigate on the ground the methods of dissemination of the Quechua culture, and that is how he embarked in November 1892 bound for Buenos Aires, with the purpose of studying the route of penetration of the Quechua. Incas in the opposite direction, that is, from Argentina to Cuzco. His arrival to these lands virtually coincided with the fourth centenary of the discovery of America; For this reason, it has been reflected that Uhle, "four hundred years after Columbus, steps on the land of the New World... [and] discovers it with the same fascination and conviction of facing unexplored horizons that await his personal intervention."
In a subsequent stage, with the financial support of large American universities, he was able to realize his long-awaited desire to visit Peru, the nation of the Incas. Beginning with his excavations on the coast near Lima in 1896, he began archaeological research on stratigraphic bases in this country, and deepened it after his contract signed in 1899 with Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley. . Without leaving aside the contributions he made with this series of works, here we will focus above all on the management that Max Uhle carried out as director of the Museum of National History, in Lima (1906 - 1911), and on his relationships personal and institutional with the Peruvian historiography of the beginning of the century.
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