One of the most delightful experiences in this museum in Lima, the Museo Larco, was to be able to go through the museum’s storage area and see the thousands of pieces of precolumbian ceramics that were not currently on display, but just crowded together behind glass, on floor to ceiling shelves, and decorated with every imaginable pattern and texture. Being a lover of pattern and texture this was a visual feast.

UL gives a general impression, masses of embayments like this, with crowded floor to ceiling shelves, daylight coming in from above, and the freedom to wander and enjoy, with not a guard or official in sight anywhere through the museum.
UR Parrots, parrots, parrots.
LL some serious probably important figures or officials
LR showing the wonderful variety of decoration on a selection of bottles or vases – how modern does the black with beige dots look on the upper row of this group?

This was one of several places on our trip that the immensity of Human History suddenly hit me, just as it did up in Macchu Pichu, but I also experienced this take-a-deep-breath-moment standing in front of Bayeux Tapestry, enterering the V&A’s medieval tapestry room, and standing in front of the iconic death mask from Tutenkhamen’s tomb in the Cairo museum.