Museo of Archeologia && a Cathedral

The entrance to the Museo of Archeologia y Architectura was a beautiful courtyard that opened up to a collection of doors waiting to be explored. The first room we entered had colorful paintings on the wall which resembled patterns found in tocapus. These colorful patterns were repetitive, and they all possessed some kind of symmetry.

In the picture found below,  there are seven squares,each depicting symmetrical patterns.

The first square is symmetrical over y=x or y=-x, depending on how you want to look at it. The second square is symmetric both vertically or horizontally, whereas the third is vertically symmetric and the fourth is radially symmetric and so on.

Another noticeable design of these tocapu-like patterns is the use of what I call shape-building, or the use of placing shapes inside of other shapes. The picture below may help illustrate what I mean.

A few doors down, I came across a blown up photograph of a Peruvian girl resting on cloths with many geometrical patterns sewn into them. What was most striking was the title of this photograph, Geometries Sagrados, which translates to Sacred Geometry. Describing geometrical shapes in such a way makes us realize how powerful of a role it plays in Peruvian culture.

The next room I stumbled upon was a classroom with the most unique of all wall decorations.. Plain white walls covered most the room but sections of the walls were left unpainted and remains of old geometrical painted walls were able to show through.

Our last destination was the Lima Cathedral Museum of Religious Art and the Lima Archbishop’s Palace Museum. Both places were absolutely breathtaking and it brought me back to my catholic upbringings and made me wish I had a cathedral like that one back at home. Below is my favorite shot of the day.

The concave golden ceilings were one of many observations I've come across that has a concave shape to it.  This is by far my favorite place that we've been to and I hope one day I get to go back!


Best wishes,
Julie