Amano, Pre-Columbian Textile Museum

This guide to the Amano Museum in Lima follows Yoshitaro Amano, a Japanese naval engineer whose fortune collapsed with the war and who rebuilt his life in Lima around 1951, gathering thousand-year-old cotton textiles that collectors had left ignored in looted desert graves. You'll hear why he designed one of Peru's first purpose-built museum structures by 1964, and how the building's real job is holding back humidity and light for cloth that the bone-dry desert had kept safe for centuries. The guide also touches on the family's 2015 renovation, which doubled the display space. Ask at the desk about the one storage room they still unlock for visitors.