Jose Carlos Mariategui Museum

This house from the beginning of the 20th century was the family space where the writer José Carlos Mariátegui lived and worked for the last five years of his life. It preserves part of the furniture, documents, books, personal objects, the so-called “Red Corner” and the offices of the Amauta magazine. In the gallery of portraits of the writer, there is the work of Julia Codesido and the Argentine Emilio Pettoruti, among other national and foreign artists. The house was declared a National Historical Monument in 1972. The museum was inaugurated on June 14, 1994 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of José Carlos Mariátegui. It currently has four rooms with a permanent exhibition on the life of Amauta and a temporary room where young artists exhibit.

Exhibitions

The José Carlos Mariátegui Museum was also the residence of Amauta José Carlos Mariátegui and his family for the last five years of his life. Several important works by Amauta were produced in this building, such as The Contemporary Scene (1925), The Amauta Magazine (1926) and Seven Essays on the Interpretation of Peruvian Reality (1928).

The Museum has a permanent exhibition made up of 3 main spaces:

The lobby where texts about the personal life of José Carlos Mariátegui are narrated along with a poem dedicated to his wife Anna Chiappe and a letter written to his first partner Victoria Ferrer.

The Red Corner, an emblematic space because in this place José Carlos received various intellectuals, artists, political and union leaders of the time. Among them are Luis Alberto Sánchez, Martín Adán, Ángela Ramos, Estuardo Núñez, José María Eguren, Hildebrando Castro Pozo, Magda Portal, Jorge Basadre, Julia Codesido, José Sabogal among others. Faithful to the use of this space, the room continues to be dedicated to culture and book presentations, plays and talks are held.

The Memory Room is the space that Mariátegui used as his office and workplace. In this environment we can find a typewriter with which he wrote the Seven Essays on the Interpretation of Peruvian Reality, started the magazine Amauta, conceived the newspaper Labor and wrote the statutes for the formation of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru.

The following space shows his work as a popularizer of the intellectuals of the time with the Minerva publishing house founded together with his brother Julio César in 1925.

In addition, a collage of magazines from the time is exhibited, including Amauta. We can also find the death mask made by Artemio Ocaña. The tour ends with a large mural about José Carlos Mariátegui created by Roy Uribe.

On the other hand, the José Carlos Mariátegui Museum holds various temporary exhibitions whose function is research, dissemination and cultural education.

Lobby

The exhibition is set inside the house where José Carlos Mariátegui lived the last five years of his life. Here he lived with his wife Anna Chiappe and his four children. The tour reveals the history of his family life, his experience in Europe, his tireless intellectual work and his political participation that translates into the permanent fight towards social justice.

The Red Corner

El Rincón Rojo, in this place José Carlos received various intellectuals, artists, political and union leaders of the time, in this emblematic space they were; Luis Alberto Sánchez, Martín Adán, Ángela Ramos, Estuardo Núñez, José María Eguren, Hildebrando Castro Pozo, Magda Portal, Jorge Basadre, Julia Codesido, José Sabogal among others. Faithful to the use of this space, the room continues to be dedicated to culture and book presentations, plays and talks are held.

Memory Room

They tell who José Carlos Mariátegui was, the importance of his universal thought, his experiences and the value of his ideas that remain alive to this day.

Visiting schedule:

Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

FREE ENTRANCE

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