{{Short description|Museum in Peru}} {{Infobox museum | name = Metropolitan Museum of Lima | native_name = Museo Metropolitano de Lima | native_name_lang = es | image = Museo Metropolitano de Lima - Conmemoración histórica de la Independencia del Perú (cropped).png | caption = | owner = [[Ministry of Transport and Communications (Peru)|Ministry of Transport and Communications]] | established = {{start date|2010|10|10}} | location = [[Avenida 28 de Julio|28 July]] & [[Avenida Inca Garcilaso de la Vega|Wilson]] Ave., [[Lima]] | type = | accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | executive_director = | deputy_director = | leader_type = | leader = | director = | president = | ceo = | chairperson = | curator = | architect = [[Claude Sahut]] | historian = | employees = | public_transit = | parking = <!-- or |car_park= --> | website = {{URL|http://https//www.museosdelima.com/museo-metropolitano-de-lima/|Museos de Lima}} | network = }} The '''Metropolitan Museum of Lima''' ({{langx|es|Museo Metropolitano de Lima}}) is a [[museum]] located next to the [[Park of the Exhibition]] in [[Lima]], [[Peru]]. The [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] building that houses the museum was designed by French architect [[Claude Sahut]] and built in 1924, formerly housing the country's [[Ministry of Transport and Communications (Peru)|Ministry of Development and Public Works]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://consultasenlinea.mincetur.gob.pe/fichaInventario/index.aspx?cod_Ficha=10931 |title=Museo Metropolitano De Lima |website=[[MINCETUR|Recursos Turísticos]]}}</ref> It was inaugurated on October 10, 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Luis Castañeda inauguró el Museo Metropolitano y negó campaña del municipio contra Susana Villarán |url=https://archivo.elcomercio.pe/sociedad/lima/luis-castaneda-inauguro-museo-metropolitano-nego-campana-municipio-contra-susana-villaran-noticia-652171 |date=2010-10-10 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=AGP inaugura el Museo Metropolitano de Lima |url=https://larepublica.pe/politica/488955-agp-inaugura-el-museo-metropolitano-de-lima |date=2010-10-10 |work=[[La República]]}}</ref>
The museum links the history of the city with the history of Peru using audiovisual resources such as scenery, videos and holograms, which covers the [[Pre-Columbian Peru|pre-Hispanic]], [[Viceroyalty of Peru|viceregal]] and [[Republican history of Peru|republican eras]] told by the characters who shaped it, such as [[Manuel de Amat y Junyent|Viceroy Amat]], [[Rose of Lima]], [[Pancho Fierro]], [[José Olaya]], [[José de San Martín]], [[Simón Bolívar]], [[Ricardo Palma]], [[Abraham Valdelomar]], [[Miguel Grau]], among others.
It has 27 projection rooms,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Solo dos de las 31 salas del Museo Metropolitano de Lima funcionan al 100% |url=https://elcomercio.pe/sociedad/lima/solo-dos-31-salas-museo-metropolitano-lima-funcionan-al-100-noticia-1628953/ |last=Acosta González |first=Martín |date=2013-09-09 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref> whose museographic direction was directed by filmmaker [[Luis Llosa]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Museo Metropolitano apuesta por un concepto distinto basado en la alta tecnología visual |url=https://archivo.elcomercio.pe/amp/sociedad/lima/museo-metropolitano-apuesta-concepto-distinto-basado-alta-tecnologia-visual-noticia-653542 |date=2010-10-13 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref> It also contains a temporary exhibition hall, the Municipal Library, the Historical Archive and the [[Taulichusco]] auditorium.
== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="packed"> File:(CCC No. 40, 1928) - Portada.jpg|The building in 1928 in ''Ciudad y Campo y Caminos'' File:(CCC No. 11. 1925) - Despacho del Ministro de Fomento, (...).png|Interior of the building in 1925 File:Foto aerea expo lima.jpg|An aerial shot of the building from 1926, also showing features from the larger [[Parque de la Exposición]] File:Ministerio de Fomento Lima-Perú.png|Older photograph from when it housed the [[Ministry of Development (Peru)|Ministry of Development]] File:Personas visitando el Museo Metropolitano de Lima 3.jpg|Exterior of the library in 2022 File:Personas visitando el Museo Metropolitano de Lima 2.jpg|A gallery in the museum in 2022 File:Personas visitando el Museo Metropolitano de Lima.jpg|Exhibit in 2022 </gallery>
==See also== *[[List of museums in Lima]]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Lima landmarks}}
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