Alpaca Museum

This is the only professional alpaca museum in the world. Here you can learn about the types of alpaca, the environment in which it lives, and its inseparable relationship with humans through a variety of photos and models. It is the best place to learn about the alpaca from all aspects. , Very interesting, it's worth checking out.

This is the world's only alpaca museum in Arequipa. It is a comprehensive introduction to the alpaca that is unique to the Americas. Only when I came in did I know that there are actually many types of alpacas. You can fully understand the life habits of alpacas and their development and evolution history. It's very interesting and it's worth taking a look.

The museum is small, but full of cultural atmosphere and unique charm. This is a courtyard of a Spanish colonial style building. The bright yellow exterior wall is outlined and inlaid with white lines. After entering, you will see a small alpaca garden first. There are white, brown, black and other colors and varieties of alpacas in the enclosure. They are docile and lovely, and they like to get close to people. Visitors can experience close contact with them. There is a 70-80 square meter exhibition hall next to the alpaca garden, and the ground is piled with alpaca wool of various colors. A female worker in blue overalls, a work cap and a mask is carefully selecting alpaca wool. This female worker is not simply performing selection, but sorting alpaca wool according to color, quality and thickness of wool. There is a large shed in the courtyard. The wall is hung with alpaca wool, spindles used by Native Indians, and brightly colored wool. On the table are several pottery bowls containing dried branches, seeds, and leaves. There are 4 clay pots on the stove. Native Indians used these simple tools to spin and dye yarn, and those dried branches, leaves and seeds were dyes. At the other end of the greenhouse, two Indian women wearing embroidered blouses and red plaid shawls on a white background sat on the ground, each woven long shawls with different patterns. The tools in their hands are 4 wooden sticks of different thicknesses and a shuttle made of alpaca bone. The women weavers come from the indigenous community of Cusco. Their weaving skills are passed down for at least 3000 years. The patterns weave are very traditional, mostly lakes, flowers and birds in their communities. They do not need drawings for weaving, no matter how complicated the patterns are, visitors can appreciate a "living culture" that has been passed down from generation to generation. There is also a hall similar to a large factory building in the museum. There are 13 used machines on both sides of the museum. Above each is a huge "work photo" of the year. The oldest one is nearly a hundred years old. It was made in 1917. The industrialized production process here shows the production process from alpaca to ready-made garments. Now the machines used are highly modern, but the process flow has not changed.

The Alpaca Museum in Arequipa is very small. As the name suggests, it introduces the past and present of the alpaca, a South American specialty. Here is a graphic introduction to the life and survival history of alpaca, as well as many specimens and life scene models, which are very interesting, so that everyone has a more comprehensive understanding of this amazing animal, which is worth visiting.

The museum has a lot of alpaca products, and there is also a small zoo inside, because there are so many things, you have to look carefully, you will find good things that you can buy