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Museo de Sitio Túcume
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Tucume Site Museum

The Tucume Site Museum is located in the district of the same name, which is located in the province and region of Lambayeque. That museum was created in the 1990s, however it has undergone recent renovations that have allowed it to open the doors of its modern structure in late 2013. This museum displays ethnological and archaeological material in its different rooms.

The main room of the museum complex, presents the collection that allows us to know the origin of the famous Tucume pyramids, made up of a group of 26 pyramids produced by different occupations. The museum room that presents information on that archaeological site also allows the visitor to learn more about the legend of Naylamp (or Naymlap) as well as its successors, and the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the old pyramid complex of Tucume.

In addition to the archaeological room, the Tucume Site Museum has a group of ethnographic rooms, where the visitor will be able to observe the different traditions that Tucume has presented and preserved throughout its history; The exhibition of these rooms is known as "A thousand years of Tucuman traditions" and they show both daily aspects of the life of the man from Tucume, from his first appearance in the territory to date, to the artisanal works practiced through centuries for its people, as well as religious aspects of its population.

In relation to the crafts that are exhibited in the museum, and that have been part of the life of the man from Tucume since its population beginnings, is that the museum, in an attempt to recover these old traditions, has taught and promoted the practices Pre-Hispanic textiles to the current population, whose final product can be observed and purchased in the establishment's bazaar.

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