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Lima’s bookcase-like adobe walls and museum collections
The Pucllana Site Museum describes small handmade adobes set in vertical rows at Huaca Pucllana, and a site account describes a platform with 96 trunk pits at Huaca Tres Palos. MALI dates its permanent collection to 1955, when works by Carlos Baca-Flor were acquired.
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Adobes set upright like books
The Ministry of Culture lists the Pucllana Site Museum in Miraflores, Lima. The Pucllana Site Museum’s leaflet says the Lima culture made small adobes by hand and set them in vertical rows resembling books in a bookcase. With this technique they built walls, rooms, patios, corridors, ramps and staircases; after a period of use these were filled with rounded stones, sand and earth to make a new base for building.[5][2]
A 96-pit platform at Tres Palos
The park’s administration lists Huaca Tres Palos among the monuments of the Maranga Archaeological Complex in Lima. Parque de las Leyendas describes Huaca Tres Palos as a temple-observatory of truncated-pyramid form. Its rammed-earth (tapia) walls were plastered and painted white and ochre yellow. The page says the highest platform has a system of 96 pits that held trunks, forming a system for measuring time, the seasons and the tides.[6][3]
A collection that began in 1955
MALI says its permanent collection began in 1955, when works by Peruvian painter Carlos Baca-Flor were acquired. It dates the opening of the permanent galleries to 10 March 1961 and says it reopened its permanent galleries in September 2015 after renovation.[4]
Good to know
A few clear answers before you explore.
How were the small bricks at Huaca Pucllana arranged?
The museum’s leaflet says they were set in vertical rows resembling books in a bookcase.[2]
What does the Huaca Tres Palos page say about its 96 pits?
It says the 96 pits that held trunks formed a system for measuring time, the seasons and the tides.[3]
When did MALI begin its permanent collection?
MALI dates its start to 1955, with an acquisition of works by Carlos Baca-Flor.[4]
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