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Museo Machu Picchu

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Set in 18th-century Casa Concha, a beautifully restored colonial home that belonged to an aristocrat, Museo Machu Picchu (museomachupicchu.com; S20) opened in 2011 to display 360 pieces from Machu Picchu taken by Hiram Bingham's expeditions that were then repatriated a century later by Yale University. Spend an hour during weekdays surveying objects excavated from South America’s most-visited site. The exhibits include stone tools and metals, ceramics and bones and shows the astounding array of fine handicrafts and ceramics acquired from throughout the vast Incan empire. There's also good background on the Bingham expeditions with informative documentaries (subtitled). Signs are in English and Spanish. The mummy and VR room is always popular.

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