{{Short description|Museum in Lima, Peru}} {{Infobox museum | name = DIRCOTE Museum | native_name = Museo de la DIRCOTE | native_name_lang = es | image = | caption = | established = <!-- {{start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | location = 400 [[Avenida España (Lima)|Spain Ave.]] | type = | accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | owner = [[National Police of Peru]] | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''DIRCOTE Museum''' ({{langx|es|Museo de la DIRCOTE}}) is a museum located on the premises of the [[DIRCOTE|National Directorate against Terrorism]] (DIRCOTE) on [[Avenida España (Lima)|Spain Avenue]] in the [[historic centre of Lima]], managed by the [[National Police of Peru]] and which exhibits objects seized from the [[Shining Path]] and [[Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement]] (MRTA) terrorist groups during the [[Peruvian conflict|internal armed conflict]] that devastated Peru during the 1980s and 1990s.<ref name=LaMula>{{Cite news |title=Para NO olvidar: Museo de la DIRCOTE expone objetos de Sendero Luminoso |url=https://redaccion.lamula.pe/2012/09/12/para-no-olvidar-museo-de-la-dircote-expone-objetos-de-sendero-luminoso/brenda1/ |date=2012-09-12 |work=La Mula}}</ref><ref name=ElMundo>{{Cite news |title=Sendero Luminoso tiene un museo en Lima |url=https://www.elmundo.es/america/2009/11/28/noticias/1259426614.html |date=2009-11-29 |work=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]]}}</ref>
==Overview== The museum, which consists of two rooms, is not open to the public and is accessible by appointment only to members of the police, journalists and educational centres.<ref name=LaMula/><ref name=ElMundo/><ref>{{Cite news |title=Museo de la DIRCOTE exhibe unos 1,200 objetos de Sendero Luminoso y del MRTA |url=https://peru.com/actualidad/cronicas-y-entrevistas/museo-dircote-exhibe-1200-objetos-sendero-luminoso-y-mrta-noticia-85839/ |date=2012-09-12 |work=[[Perú.com]]}}</ref> It was born from the institutional exhibition of objects seized during police operations and that were shown on the anniversaries of the capture of the Shining Path leader [[Abimael Guzmán]] on September 12, 1992, during [[Operation Victoria]] by members of the [[Special Intelligence Group|GEIN]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Museo del terror |url=https://larepublica.pe/archivo/316668-museo-del-terror/ |date=2004-09-18 |work=[[La República]]}}</ref><ref name=Montalvo>{{Cite news |title=Captura de Abimael Guzmán marcó un hito en la historia del Perú |url=https://andina.pe/agencia/noticia-captura-abimael-guzman-marco-un-hito-la-historia-del-peru-253421.aspx |last=Montalvo |first=Miguel |date=2009-09-12 |work=[[Andina (news agency)|Andina]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Sendero Luminoso: exhibición de Dircote muestra objetos incautados a terroristas |url=https://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/actualidad/sendero-luminoso-museo-dircote-exhibe-objetos-incautados-terroristas-n291208 |date=2017-09-08 |work=[[América Televisión|América Noticias]]}}</ref>
The collection of the museum, also known as the DIRCOTE's "trophy room", displays around 1,200 objects such as posters, paintings, documentation, photographs, books, videos, weapons, as well as gifts and personal objects of Guzmán and of [[Víctor Polay Campos]] of the MRTA, among others.<ref name=LaMula/><ref name=Montalvo/><ref>{{Cite news |title=Recorra el museo de la Dircote |url=https://www.atv.pe/actualidad/recorra-el-museo-de-la-dircote-338253 |date=2017-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627214129/https://www.atv.pe/actualidad/recorra-el-museo-de-la-dircote-338253 |archive-date=2020-06-27 |work=[[ATV (Peruvian TV channel)|ATV]]}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Lima landmarks}}
[[Category:National Police of Peru]] [[Category:Museums in Lima]] [[Category:Internal conflict in Peru]] [[Category:History museums in Peru]] [[Category:Lima District]]