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The Incas: Treasures of Peru

Nov 27, 2019 – Apr 13, 2020
350 Place Royale, Montréal, QC H2Y 3Y5, Canada

When you think of the Inca Empire, Machu Picchu’s dramatic backdrop comes to mind, followed by the ancient civilization’s monumental architecture and extensive road network. A new exhibition reveals a lesser known side of the empire, the largest in pre-Columbian America: its cultural heritage. Three hundred objects—gold and silver work, ornaments, jewelry, funerary masks, feather and textile pieces—span pre-Inca times through to the people’s conquest by the Spanish in the 16th-century. —J.V.

“The Incas, Treasures of Peru,” 2019–2020. Photo: Caroline Thibault.