Technical Visits and Tours
All technical visits will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 September 2024.
The technical visits are low cost and/or FREE for regional delegates (South America + Caribbean and Bands 2-4 countries) - registration is required to secure a place. Some technical visit will require travel by bus/coach, travel tickets will be issued at the start of the Congress via the registration desk at the Congress Venue located at UTEC. Places are limited and are offered on a first come, first served basis.
All registered Congress delegates will be issued a booking access code to secure a place on a technical visit, the booking page can be found here.
Bookings for Technical Visits closed on 31 July - please contact the IIC Congress team if you are late registering, congress@iiconservation.org
. ** Regional Delegates included all individuals living and working/studying in Bands 2-4 countries.
Santuario arqueológico y Museo de Pachacamac
Located in the Lurin Valley, south of Lima, the sanctuary is one of the most important pilgrimage centres of the pre-Hispanic period, with occupancies dated back to 5,000 BC. It is an exceptional testimony of the civilizational process in the central Andean area and the continuity of this process, as it brings together material expressions from different societies and cultures that occupied, during various times and continuously, the territory of the central Andean coast.
Tour Duration: 5 hours / Travel by Bus
Max number of people: 90
Cost: £25 per person (International Delegates) includes a packed lunch.
Cost: £10 per person (Regional Delegates**) includes a packed lunch.
The museum houses one of the most important collections of Peruvian colonial art (16th-18th centuries), and a conservation lab. It is located in Barranco, in the mansion built in 1906 by Pedro de Osma y Pardo, an eminent lawyer, politician, and collector. The museum stands out for its French-inspired style, art nouveau stained glass windows, metal ceilings, and crystal chandeliers, as well as a beautiful garden setting.
Tour Duration: 4 hours / Walk or Travel by Taxi
Max number of people: 15
Cost: £15 per person (International Delegates) excludes cost of taxi
Cost: Free for Regional Delegates**
This pre-Columbian textile museum covers the first raw materials employed, and textile history within Peruvian territory, tracing the development of a myriad of pre-hispanic cultures (1,000 BC- 1,500 AC). The visit will include access to the storage facilities of the museum, where cabinets can be opened by those interested in studying the pre-hispanic textile art through close observation of different of techniques and designs in fine examples by skilled textile workers.
Tour Duration: 4 hours / Travel by Taxi
Max number of people: 15
Cost: £15 per person (International Delegates) excludes cost of taxi
Cost: Free for Regional Delegates**
The museum is one of the most important archaeological collections that houses over 5000 years of ancient Peruvian history and its connection to the pre-hispanic societies' relationship with nature. Its collections enable an understanding of the development of these societies and appreciation of their accessible storage with more than 30,000 archaeological pieces and the documentary area.
Tour Duration: 4 hours / Travel by Bus
Max number of people: 15
Cost: £10 per person (International Delegates)
Cost: Free for Regional Delegates**
PROLima is an organization whose purpose is to promote the recovery of the historic centre. The tour will be focused on the visit to two restoration projects: The mural painting on the facade of the Church of La Soledad (16th century). The second visit will lead us to the Old Hospital of San Andrés - the first to be founded in Peru in 1538 - the research carried out for its restoration, and the archaeological excavation- conservation storage.
Tour Duration: 4 hours / Travel by Bus
Max number of people: 15
Cost: £10 per person (International Delegates)
Cost: Free for Regional Delegates**