The Amano Museum is one of the oldest museum institutions in Peru, it has its origin in the passion of the Japanese businessman Yoshitaro Amano for archeology and Peruvian culture. In his trips around the country, Mr. Amano was able to see pre-Hispanic pieces abandoned and destroyed by grave robbers. He recognized the importance of these pieces and began to collect them. He dedicated the last part of his life to recovering and preserving these pieces, initially exhibiting them in his house in Miraflores.
In 1964, he founded the Amano Museum. Over time, it was recognized as one of the most important exhibition spaces of pre-Columbian textile art. Today, the Museum continues its founder's tradition of service and research.
The Museum exhibits, in its first rooms, more than 120 textile pieces that cover the entire cultural development of ancient Peru. The culminating space of the exhibition shows more than 460 pieces of Chancay textile mastery.