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Sicán National Museum
Located in the extreme north of the city, this attractive culture center was inaugurated in November 2001. This museum exhibits part of the archaeological and instrumental heritage extracted mainly from the Batangrande area. The objects found in Huaca Loro are exhibited here, a site where the Japanese researcher Izumi Shimada discovered two elite tombs of the Sicán culture, between the years 1992 - 1995. The museum provides an overview of what was the capital of culture Sican in Batán Grande. A scale model of the Huaca Loro is exhibited, as well as ceramics found at the archaeological site.
Replicas of the burial patterns of the two tombs found at Huaca Loro have been made. This allows a clearer idea of the concept of death for the sicanes.
Other rooms offer us dioramas with the description of the techniques used to make ceramics. As well as recreations of the metal working process, from its extraction to the final finish with the use of techniques such as hammering, palletizing, casting, setting, etc.
The final part of the museum is the most important because the objects found at the Huaca Loro archaeological site are exhibited here. The crown of the lord of the main tomb is majestic, the representation of the bat with its mouth open amazes for its realism. Earmuffs, calves and other gold ornaments are masterpieces. Luckily, they resisted the weather and the humidity of the terrain, since the tombs were located an average of 12 meters underground.