As a part of my 10 day tourist ticket I have been trying to hit up all the museums that are included for free. Now, I love museums. Really. Visit them on a regular basis. That being said, there are only so many broken clay pots from the Inkas and paintings of baby Jesus or the Last Supper I can do. Even the museums of contemporary and popular art are mostly religious, influenced by Spanish colonization.
What is very interesting is the art of the people of Peru/Cusco and in both the paintings and especially the clay. Also, some of the medical procedures the Inkas used to do are really interesting (of course there is only one wall for this while 20 rooms for the clay pots). The Inkas used to purposefully deform the heads of babies/children in order to establish class and race (see picture - thou as I was looking at the skulls, mummies, and teeth I wondered who would think their dead carcas would be sitting behind glass thousands of years from now). Also, when someone had a head injury thery used to dig holes in the skull with copper and gold instruments, and used coco leaves for anesthetics. Can you imagine? About 65% of people survived. Afterwards they would fill in the hole in your skull with gold plates.
Other than that I dont think I will be visiting any more clays pots. I´m an artist. I need color and pretty pictures in my life.
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