Museo de Arte Contemporaneo se construira en Cusco

Museum of Contemporary Art to be built in Cusco, Peru

The Archaeologists Association will start tomorrow the archaeological field survey of the land where the museum of the American Institute of Art (IAA) will be constructed, informed the head of this institution, Carlos Ruiz Caro.This museum would be located in an area close to the Archaeological Park of Sacsayhuaman (Cusco) and will be dedicated to Cusco’s contemporary art.Ruiz explained that IAA will finance part of project costs, while Peru’s National Institute of Culture (INC) would provide the proper staff members and logistics.Ruiz recalled that the area where the museum would be constructed was used by the Peruvian archaeologist Luis E. Valcárcel (1891-1987) to collect the relics he dug out from Sacsayhuaman for their respective research.Place with historyIAA representative said that “it wouldn’t be rare to find more objects. We might find new walls from the Incan construction in this area”, he said.He also said that the members of the IAA have programmed to “take over” the lands close to Sacsayhuaman in “a symbolic way”. This area was donated several years ago by an IAA member to the institution with the purpose to build a museum. However, the construction didn’t take place due to some problems between both parties.Ruiz added that IAA plans to build a museum that has every service available, such as an information center, a restaurant, and even a Sacsayhuaman on-site museum.
News source: ANDINA