Nazca Sights

  1. Museo Arqueológico Antonini

    This excellent archaeological museum gives both an overview of the Nazca culture and a glimpse of most of Nazca's outlying sites. It also boasts an aqueduct running through the back garden, interesting reproductions of burial tombs, a valuable collection of ceramic pan flutes and a scale model of the lines. The exhibit labels are in Spanish, but the front desk lends translation booklets in various languages.

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  2. Museo Maria Reiche

    When Maria Reiche, the German mathematician and long-term researcher of the Nazca Lines, died in 1998, her house, which stands another 5km north along the Panamericana, was made into the small Museo Maria Reiche . Though disappointingly scant on information, you can see where she lived, amid the clutter of her tools and obsessive sketches, and pay your respects to her tomb outside in the garden.

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  3. Planetarium Maria Reiche

    This small planetarium offers scripted evening lectures on the Nazca Lines with graphical displays on a domed projection screen that last approximately 45 minutes. Call ahead or check the posted schedules for show times in Spanish or English (French and Italian by reservation only).

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