National Museum in Callao

Went to visit on 8/16/22 and was told at the door by security guard that Museum has been relocated to Lurin. No further information was given.

Very nice museum, spacious with art to buy and art on exhibition.The Cafe Concierto next door is beautifully designed and has some beautiful musical events from time to time.

It doesn’t exist at this location. No information and no assistance from staff

There is no museum. It’s only ministerio and it’s closed for tourists

Amazing place for a foreing and for the general people. 🖤

Museum is actually closed but temporary exhibit on how Pizarro found Lima is interesting and guide was very informative.

There’s so little to see and everything is in Spanish. Not worth the cost of the Uber ride to get there.

Total waste of time, one photo exhibition to see in the entire building. Even with a free entrence it was to expensive.

Terrible place, nothing like my childhood memories, is not even called like that anymore since they are moving all the pieces to another museum and there is just an small exhibition on muchic sites and some terrorism exhibition, is free though, but honestly, just a waste of time

There were only 3 halls showing stuff when I went. 2 about ancient Peru and 1 about Terrorism. The pieces are not varied nor impressive. I would say the MALI (Museo de arte de Limahas a better collection, by far.

Have been reviewed the Inca culture in every single way from gloves, paints, figures, silver etc, excellent

The Museum is permanently closed. One exhibit for the Nasca is open.

Worst museum ever despite free entry. They call themselves "National Museum of Peru"??Only 1 exhibition open. All others closed or/and under reconstruction.

The main archeological museum is no longer here. All that is here is a photo exhibit of the Shining Path revolution days on the sixth floor. The rest of the building is now offices. Don’t go if you are expecting more. I don’t know why seemingly recent reviews don’t reflect this fact.

A great place to go with family and learn a lot from the peruvian culture.

Most of it was closed so we didnt see much, but we had a great (payedEnglish guided tour.

Great spaceAwesome snack bar with a phenomenal chicken salad sandwich.

They have very good free entrance expositions but they should have them also in English as I saw many tourists and everything was in Spanish. They have parking area inside the museum, the environment is nice and clean.

No what I expected to be see. No a Museum but offices for the Secretary of Culture and Arts 👎👎

Excellent !!👏

There is absolutely nothing to see here. Go to the anthropology museum instead.

UPDATE THIS MUSEON IS CLOSE , FOR SOME ESTÚPID REASON NO ONE CARE TO UPDATE THIS INFO , DO NOT GO THERE IS NOT OPEN THERES NO MUSEUM ANY MORE !!

A must to visit!

Could find one exhibit? Even after looking at a map and actively searching apparantly peruvian history is summed up by 15 telephones

Dont go expecting a museum. It in s hardly that. I havent been in 10 years. But boy has it changed! The basically is no museum. They took away all the art of different cultures such as moche, chimu, etc. There used to be much, much, more. The 6th floor is "yuyanapaq para recordar", which is great. It details the actions of Shining Path / sendero luminoso. If you want to see the, go see it. There is stuff on the first floor, but its dumb. Nothing to call this place worthy of the national museum. Its basically just the remember exhibit. Ive been told the old items have been moved to Museo Larco. I wish somebody would have told me before....

You can know about the Peruvian culture in general. Very amazed.

A bit small, but excellent exhibit on shining path

Not many exhibitions, the content is strangely organised. Almost no english text for tourists. Not worth a visit.

Its a wonderful place to know all about Peruvian culture and history

Some times they lend the spaces to other institutions, they overlook those events and everything get disorganized. Look for other events before booking a tour.

Great exhibits featuring Peruvian history. Be prepared to walk through a metal detector. For security purposes purses are checked. Large bags are not allowed. You will need to sign in to visit some exhibits.

Nice building but museum had very few exhibits, we asked a member of staff and they told us most of the items were in the anthropology museum. I didnt get a chance to see that museum, but I would advise tourists to give this place a pass.

Very interesting exhibition. Also needs more content

Clean. Well organised. Great overview of Peruivian recent political history.

The museum is simple, well maintained and neat. The exhibits are very informative and the photography collection is amazing

Great place for knowing better the Peruvian culture and history

Not really a museum. In March 2018, there was an interesting photo exhibit on The Shinning Path.

Not a single piece of history. Only few expositions not related to history. Not tourist friendly.

Not much to see here. I wouldnt recommend it unless they bring in more exhibits.

There is not actually a collection about Peru; only an exibition of contemporary art. Free admission though but museum was very limited. Better check some other museums

Nice place to find out about Peruvian history

There are always nice events here 😊

Museum closed but top floor about history of Lima and civil war worth the vist

When it was an actual museum, it was better, now, im not sure

Although it has seen better days, the expositions here are still top notch. Specially the pre-incaic and Incan floors.

I CAN IMAGINE BACK THEN THEY USE TO HAVE MORE TO SEE INSIDE THE MUSEUM NOW ITS JUST GETTING EMPTY BY THE YEARS

This museum is closed. We were told at the information desk by the entrance that "there is nothing".

The museum is currently closed and being moved to another location. Only the sixth floor still contains a photo exposition, about terrorism in Peru in the 20th century. Impressive, but in itself not sufficient for a detour

Beautiful brutalist building huge museum but no fixed exposition about the nation itself only three or four temporary shows which may vary I had a good experience but be wary.

Although cheap one would think the National Museum would have a big exposition, specially for a culturally rich country as Peru, but barely 1 small floor counts as the whole thing, it was a little bit disappointing.