National_Afro-Peruvian_Museum
National Afro-Peruvian Museum
Museum in Lima, Peru
The National Afro-Peruvian Museum is a museum dedicated to the acquisition, preservation and exhibition of objects related to the history of African descendants in Peru. Its headquarters is located in the House of the Thirteen Coins located on Ancash Street in the historic centre of Lima.[1] It was inaugurated on 4 June 2009.
The museum has nine permanent exhibition halls, the main exhibits showing the beginnings of trade in African slaves in Latin America, as well as the slave trade in Peru.[2] In the museum, relics are exhibited from colonial times until the beginning of the Republic.[3]