Inka Museum
Colonial mansion housing the world's largest collection of painted Inca ceremonial drinking cups.
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This guide to the Inka Museum in Cusco opens with a question posed by the cases of painted keros in front of you: how do you display a marriage when only one half of it survived. It follows the querocamayoc artisans who carved these drinking cups in identical pairs, sealed with chicha at weddings, truces, and political deals, and traces how Andean painters kept working after the conquest, folding Inca processions and rulers into cups the Spanish dismissed as tableware. Along the way it walks through the building itself, the seventeenth century Casa del Almirante, raised over the palace once claimed by the Inca ruler Huascar.
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