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Duration: 3 hours tour

Contemporary Art Museum, this museum is an exhibition of painting and sculpture current art. It is a municipal collection founded recently by the former major Daniel Estrada. They show the work of painters of Cusco of XX century. On the ground floor, surrounding the patio, there are twelve shelves with contemporary handicraft. We can admire the creations of Hilario Mendívil, Edilberto Mérida and Antonio Olave. Two of the rooms on the first floor are the art galleries, and on the second floor we permanently find a selection of contemporary painting.

Cusco Regional History Museum, the History Museum of Cusco is one of the most visited museums in the city. The half-breed writer Inca Garcilazo de la Vega, famous by his "Comentarios Reales", was born here.

Exposition: Valuable historic documents, collection of pre Inca objects, pottery of pre Inca cultures of Cusco and the rest of the country, Inca textile, Inca agriculture tools and music instruments. Colonial paintings and metallic objects of the colonial period. Colonial architecture: small churches covered in gold leaf, balconies of Cusco (furniture). Colonial and Republic coins. Itinerant exhibition room of Contemporary Art

Popular Art Museum of the American Art Institute, this museum was founded in 1937 and it owes numerous pieces of carving of sacred images, handicraft, pottery, carved wood and stone, and a large collection of dolls.

Outstanding from this group, we find the masks of devils and dances of Paucartambo worked by Santiago Rojas, as well as important pieces of great artisans from Cusco of the present century such as Hilario and Georgina Mendívil, Edilberto Mérida, Maximiliana Palomino de Sierra and Antonio Olave. It also has an extensive pinacotheca of contemporary art with paintings of Francisco González Gamarra, Mariano Fuentes Lira, Agustín Rivero, among others. There is also an important Phototheca with pictures of Martin Chambi and Vidal Gonzalez.

Site Museum of Koricancha,  the Koricancha Museum is located in front of the temple of Santo Domingo. It exhibits Prehispanic objects from the different areas of Cusco. It is a small museum displayed in three rooms: Preinca, Inca and Colony. Most of them are the result of excavations performed in Coricancha (in Quechua Qurikancha, "Golden patio") during 1992-1995