Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Rehabilitated and refurbished rooms look thanks to the Ministry of Culture and the support of the International Cooperation Agency of Japan.
The Regional Museum of Ica Adolfo Bermudez Jenkins will open its doors again to the public after being closed for eight months due to maintenance work and rehabilitation that the Ministry of Culture made to improve facilities for visitors.
 
As of May 28 and a new schedule, the public can visit the renovated rooms of the museum, its exhibition halls where cultural objects illustrating the pre-Hispanic history of the region of Ica through products based on ceramics are presented, textiles and others expressing the various manifestations of life of our ancestors. In environments a model of the Nasca lines and geoglyphs is displayed.
 
The work was carried out under the Grant Agreement that entered the Ministry of Culture with the International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the implementation of Improvement Project Equipment Exhibition and Conservation Regional Museum of Ica Adolfo Bermudez Jenkins, valued at the equivalent of $ 343,378.43 US dollars.
 
At the reopening ceremony attended by the Japanese Ambassador to Peru Tatsuya Kabutan, director of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI) Rosa Herrera Costa, the Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Industries Juan Pablo de la Puente and the director of the Directorate Desconcentrada of Ica, Ana Maria Ortiz de Zevallos.
 
Adolfo Bermudez Jenkins museum can be visited from Tuesday to Friday from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm Students, teachers and retirees have a special rate .