In an unlikely location 1.5km northwest of the center is Ayacucho’s most haunting museum, remembering the impact the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) had on Peru in the city that was most deeply affected by the conflict. Its simple displays (in Spanish) are nonetheless moving: there are eyewitness accounts of the horrors that went on and a particularly poignant montage of photos of mothers who had children killed in the fighting.
