Museo De Arte Virreinal de Santa Teresa, Arequipa., Arequipa Region, Peru

4.5 (324 reviews) Friday: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #6 in Arequipa Speciality Museums • Art Museums • History Museums

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The Santa Teresa y San Jose’s Carmelitas Descalzas’s Monastery, from Arequipa, was founded in 1710, and since then remains in life, hosting a Community of Contemplative Nuns. In its more than 300 years of existence, the Monastery has been treasuring paintings, sculptures, furniture, metalwork, decorative arts, textiles, beautiful murals and objects of daily use from different periods, origins and artistic styles. In 2005, the Community of nuns decided to open a part of the monastery as Museum of Viceregal Art, exhibiting hundreds of objects of its valuable collection in 12 spaces of the old Cloister of the Offices. The Museum is thematic in most of its Exhibition Halls and is also a living museum, since several of the objects and environments are still used as they were more than 3 centuries ago.

Address

Calle Mariano Melgar 303, Arequipa 04001 Peru

Mobile

+51 958 227 703

Website

http://www.museosantateresa.org

Email

[email protected]

Working hours

Monday : 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sunday :

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Friday, May 10, 2024, 10:22

User Ratings

4.5 based on (324 reviews)

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Reviews

  • 5Jarko2015 5:00 PM Aug 20, 2017
    Very interesting tour
    This is still a functioning convent, although only 21 nuns still live here in a completely cloistered environment. You can tour the museum and grounds for PS20, but you will also be told to pay your guide (I gave her PS10), even though it is compulsory to have a guide. So what's the PS20 for? Regardless, there's a lot to see here, including some truly beautiful artwork and antiques, although some of the dolls are a bit freaky. You can also get a view of the church, which otherwise is only open once daily for mass, but they don't take you into the church itself, just the choir. Since the convent still functions, the guide will work out a route that doesn't interfere with the (unseen) nuns' daily routine. However, my guide stopped and explained every single picture, every single cabinet, every single display, which was torturous. It really is overkill.
  • 4Marcissotripping 5:00 PM Jul 20, 2019
    Amazing town in a town
    Cool monestry in the centum of a town! Amazing use of colours en interesting to see how the Nona lived in the past. By the way the cakes are perfect in the coffeeshop

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