¡Maravillas del Perú, wonderful and magical land! : Amano museum

Amano museum -Passion for prehispanic Peruvian art

Introduction

Yoshitaro Amano was a Japanese businessman who by 1930 had built his business fortune in South America, losing as a result of World War II because he was deported to Japan. After the war, he returned to America to rebuild its companies and was established in Peru by 1951.

For Peru, Yoshitaro Amano is a memorable character because he devoted his fortune and time to locate and protect the cultural heritage of Peru from destruction and looting. Amano, like Maria Reiche and others realized the immense value of the pre-Hispanic heritage, assumed the task of preserving it for future generations. Without Maria Reiche Nazca lines today would quarries or human settlements, without Amano beautiful textiles that are displayed in the museum have been destroyed as a fuel or waste. They went ahead to ignorance, apathy and disinterest of Peruvians past.

For ordinary people the pre-Hispanic textiles were worthless, used them as firewood, or practiced target shooting with vessels considered worthless; Amano collected and retain a magnificent set of works (his collection has 20 000-or whole pieces' museables'- and 20,000 valuable fragments for archaeologists and historians).

Mario Amano, son and successor of its task, tells a story of the origin of the museum in 1961, that began building his father:

"He collected but also digging. One day I was stuck in a ditch, digging, and passed Mr. Graña, owner of the nearby estate Huando, who, seeing him so interested in his work, invited him to visit a nearby farm where there were 'huacas'. Before they stopped to eat where Mr. Ishiki, a Japanese who ran a restaurant. They talked and to learn the passion of my father, and seeing him so interested in it, over lunch, he said, 'Follow me,' and showed him the thousands of pieces of ceramics and textiles that were in his house ... and the gift. So this museum was started ". http://www.museoamano.org/amano/

A stroke of luck for the Yoshitaro Amano, a windfall for Peru because that fortune fell to the right person. The destination can do their master moves.

Yoshitaro Amano discovered and rescued textiles from the Chancay culture, and to prevent its disintegration by the time he applied careful conservation techniques. Before finally living in Peru, by 1929 had visited Machu Picchu, perhaps therein lies the source of his fascination with the pre-Hispanic past.

Between 50 and 60 he made his fortune in the field of fisheries, and as cultured and well-educated person, also devoted his time to archeology, which allowed him to recognize the value of the Chancay culture whose wealth was at its maximum textiles and ceramics.

In his many travels around the country, Mr. Amano noted abandoned by grave robbers objects and could recognize its value and importance, which led him to devote much of his time and fortune to recover and preserve the abandoned objects in the coastal deserts for display at his home in Miraflores.

Yoshitaro collection was already important, but also had demanded rigor dimension, research and professionalism. He bought the land adjacent to his house and in 1961 began construction of the museum.

In 1964, he founded the Museo Amano, one of the first buildings designed in Peru to serve as a museum. This museum was recognized as one of the most important areas of the Peruvian textile art exhibition and a bridge of cooperation between Japanese and Peruvian researchers.

Amano Yoshitaro died in 1982, but his memory remains and the view of the magnificent work that rescued renewed in amazement that cause visitors. Amano was not born in Peru, but with Maria Reich and other foreigners who loved our country, is an envoy for lady luck, so "worth a Peru".

Fifty years later, the family remodeled the museum Amano to maintain the tradition of service and research of its founder. Now it called Amano, TEXTILE MUSEUM PRECOLOMBINO and shows wonderful works of pre-Columbian textiles pipelining, under optimal exposure.

There were moments of economic crisis, and although in 2010 the family had to sell the house Yoshitaro to prevent the closure of the museum, today thanks to support private and public institutions in Japan, and professional collaboration of Peruvians, the Museum has been renovated and exposure continues. Hopefully for much longer.

The Museum - Exhibition

The Amano museum houses the most important collection of textiles in the country. For the permanent exhibition it has four exhibition rooms divided into three concepts:

a) TEXTILE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE:

Tour of the home textiles in the world, the first commodity and its history in the Peruvian territory. Here the textile history of the Chavin, Paracas, Nasca, Mochica, Huari, Sihuas, Lambayeque, Chimu, Chancay and Inca cultures Chuquibamba runs.

These two items are a sample of expertise, and safety are worthy of a princess.

b) LIVING TEXTILES COMMODITIES AND TOOLS:

Exhibition of all textile process necessary to create stunning textiles shown in the museum, from the selection of raw materials, dyeing, spinning and selection of suitable looms. Examples of the textile master reached and the various uses to which the fibers are also shown.

c) Amano Yoshitaro ROOM:

Store and storage room that allows privileged access to some of the stores of the museum, where they have placed the classic drawers showing the textile development achieved by the Chancay culture. The room has beautiful examples of various textile structures and techniques mastered by the company of skilled textile workers and potters who lived more than 900 years ago.