This outstanding museum funded jointly by the Peruvian and Japanese governments, houses most of the intricate and horrifyingly carved tenon heads from Chavín de Huántar , as well as the magnificent Tello Obelisk, another stone object of worship with low relief carvings of a caiman and other fierce animals. The obelisk had been housed in a Lima museum since the 1945 earthquake that destroyed much of the original museum, and was only returned to Chavín in 2009.
The museum is located around 2km from the ruins on the other side of town.
