Brüning Museum

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The Brüning Museum was inaugurated in 1966 and it is located in two blocks of the principal park. There is born as fruit of the work of 48-year-old researcher of the Peruanista Enrique Bruning.

In the gardens of this beautiful museum depositor emphasizes the figure of Naylamp, founder of the Lambayecanos Kings' dynasty. The frontage has a mural with Lambayecanos motives. The interior of the principal building is a sequence of four levels, between his brokers and lounges exhibit more than 1,400 archaeological pieces, declarations that were bequeathed of the cultures Lambayeque, Moche, Chavín, Vicús Inca and others. The most important pieces date of more than 10,000 years ago.

It will be able to appreciate the remains of the rich and powerful King, called " The Master of Sipán ". His remains and the mortuary trousseau rest between the walls of the museum. The Golden room shows up to 500 pieces that they are real works of art.

It is an excellent museum based on the collections of the German Engineer, Enrique Bruning, gathered at the end of the XIXth century and the first decades of the XXth century. The Peruvian government acquired this collection in 1925. This museum has been constantly enriched by pieces obtained in confiscations, donations and discoveries. The most recent procurement are the pieces acquired in the Grave of the Master of Sipán. This museum is constructed by modern and functional facility, in accordance with a design been inspired by the works of Him Corbusier. There can be more than 1500 pieces of different cultures, including an invaluable textile collection and ceramics of Chimú and Vicus. Thousands of golden objects are kept in sealed rooms, including funeral masks of copper, ceremonial vessels, an extraordinary necklace and jewelry of provenientes of Mochica and Chimú and pieces of the culture Lambayeque. The exhibition has been located following a strict didactic criterion.