Museum sights in Ica
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Museo Regional de Ica
In suburban San Isidro, don’t miss this gem of a museum. It has an impressive collection of artifacts from the Paracas, Nazca and Inca cultures, including superb examples of Paracas weavings, as well as textiles made of feathers. There are beautiful Nazca ceramics, scarily well-preserved mummies of everything from children to a small macaw, trepanned skulls and shrunken trophy heads, enormous wigs and tresses of hair. Out back look for a scale model of the Nazca Lines.
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Museo Cabrera Piedra
On the Plaza de Armas, the Museo Cabrera Piedra has an oddball collection of thousands of carved stones and boulders graphically depicting diverse pre-Columbian themes, from astronomy to surgical techniques and sexual practices. The eccentric collector, Dr Cabrera, claimed the stones were ancient, but they're very likely elaborate fakes. If you'd rather not pay, you can sneak a peek at some of the carvings outside the museum entrance.
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