Museum of Tucume is awarded Best World Tourism Project

The newly opened Museum of Site Tucume in Lambayaque (north of Chiclayo), was awarded "Best World Tourism Project" award from the Association of British Travel Writers (BGTW) due to the tourism potential of the place and the social work done with communities area.

"The Tucume Museum has been honored with this award thanks to his visit in June this year, the British travel writer and author of the book" Trekking in Peru ', Hilary Bradt, who fell in love with this cultural center, "said Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva.

The award was presented in November 2015, but the last last weekend proceeded with the official presentation of this distinction in the new premises of the museum, where they unveiled their new identity as 'eco-museum'.

"This is a new concept for Peru, through which communities can preserve, interpret and evaluate their assets for sustainable development," said Alfredo Narvaez, founding director of the Museum of Tucume.

Source: Peru21.

Visit the Northern Peru:

Moche Route Tour 3D/2N
Archaeology and Nature Tour 4D/3N
Treasures of the Northern Kingdoms 8D/7N

Approximately 50 thousand tourists visit the Chiclayo Municipal Palace

In 2010 the Municipal Palace of Chiclayo was remodeled, since then it has become the only attraction in the city center. The visitors' highest point was given in April, when schools, colleges and universities entered to 14 showrooms, adding up more than 3 thousand visitors in one day.

"If we speak about the Historical Center,  is the only attraction that we have in Chiclayo, since the renovation of the place oriented to a cultural and artistic use, and is very gratifying to know that in this place the photographic and pictorial samples displayed have captivated visitors. " said the Head of the Documentation Center of Historical Memory, Jorge Vasquez Orrego.

So far the museum has received 50 thousand visits. The 15 % of the visitors comes from abroad: Holland, Belgium, Germany, Brazil, Chile, between other countries of the orb. Those people are very satisfied with the importance and the remodeling of this architectural work.

In the halls can be observed graphics of the Chiclayo Colonial, photos of the reconstruction of the palace, as well as art exhibitions of  Mórrope and Tucume of local, regional and national artists.

Learn more of the north of Peru with the following tours:

• Moche Route Tour 3D/2N : Chiclayo and Trujillo
• Archaeology and Nature Tour 4D/3N: Trujillo, Chaparri and Chiclayo