Carlos Dreyer Municipal Museum
Altiplano collection in a colonial house by Puno cathedral, with gold found at Sillustani.
The museum grew out of the collection of Carlos Dreyer Spohr, a German painter and collector who settled in Puno in 1925 and gathered archaeological pieces, colonial paintings, books, photographs and everyday objects of the altiplano in his family house. The provincial council of Puno acquired the collection in 1976 and the museum opened to the public in its present form in 1978. Its holdings run to about 1,800 items spanning the pre-Inca, Inca, colonial and republican periods.
Displays are arranged over six rooms and three galleries in a colonial house on Jirón Conde de Lemos, beside the cathedral and a block from the main square. They include Pukara and Tiwanaku ceramics and stone sculpture, colonial religious painting of the Cusco school, and Dreyer's own paintings and drawings of Lake Titicaca. An upper room holds gold and silver objects recovered from the chullpa burial towers at Sillustani. The building was declared a cultural heritage of the nation in 1980.
Highlights
- Gold and silver objects from the chullpas at Sillustani
- About 1,800 items from pre-Inca to republican times
- Cusco school religious paintings from the colonial period
- Paintings and drawings of Lake Titicaca by Carlos Dreyer
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