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Museo de Sitio Arturo Jiménez Borja - Puruchuco
Cultural heritage through artistic activity (18 May, 10am)
Free entrance; Performance.
This event was organised in order to involve each educational
institution of the Ate Vitarte academy in the celebration of
International Museum Day. It is an artistic activity that evokes
cultural heritage through different disciplines: dance, theatre
and singing.
Dance: typical of the country’s different regions, such as the
“Huaylas”, which comes from the Central Sierra and
particularly from the Junin region, and is a representation of
potatoes harvesting.
Theatre: Through this art, learning more about the functions
and everyday life of the curaca of Puruchuco, as well as the
production and development of community celebrations.
Singing: interpretation of Andean music with pre-Hispanic
instruments.
Contact: Clide María Valladolid Huamán (Director)
Phone: 00 01 4942641
Fax: 00 01 4942641
Email: cvalladolid@mcultura.gob,pe
Direction: Carretera Central Km 4.5 Ate Vitarte - 3 Lima, Perú
Web site: www.mcultura.gob.pe
Museo de la nación
Museum and memory at Museo de la Nación (Tuesday -
Sunday, from 9am to 5pm)
Free entrance. Opening, visit and performance.
Temporary exhibition “The bridge of Q'eswachaka: Andean
engineering and tradition”
Photography exhibition of the renovation of the bridge,
including the preparation of the ropes, called q'eswas, and the
three days of construction. This type of work is still carried out
today and dates from the Inca period. The plaiting is done by
the Huinchiri, Chaupibanda, Choccayhua et Ccollana Quehue
farming communities of the Canas province in Cusco.
Inauguration: Friday, 6 May, 12:30am
Room: Mochica-Chimu
Exhibition: On the trail of Engraving in the collections of the
museums of the Ministry of Culture.
Inauguration: Tuesday, 17 May at 7pm
Room: Caral, fourth floor.
Performance:
Engraving by the teachers of the Art Faculty of Pontificia
Universidad Católica in Peru, specialised in this field.
Date and room: Wednesday, 18 May, 10:30am, Caral room,
fourth floor.
Contact: Margarita Ginocchio Lainez-Lozada (Architect)
Phone: (+51) 4769878
Email: mginocchio@mcultura.gob.pe
Address: Av. Javier Prado Este 2465, San Borja - Lima 41 Peru
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