The Museo de América is a museum based in Madrid, more exactly at number 6 of avenida de los Reyes Católicos. The Museo de America was founded on April 19, 1941 to house the collections of American archeology, art and ethnography which until then had been the property of the National Archaeological Museum.

Inside the museum about twenty-five thousand works are exhibited that cover a vast historical period: from the paleolithic to the present day and cover the whole of the continent. In particular, all archaeological, artistic and ethnographic finds that describe all parts of the world are collected here.

For this reason, the collections inside the museum are among the richest in the context in which this work: you can find different thematic areas regarding pre-Columbine archeology, colonial art and ethnography with objects that do not concern only Spanish America but even those regions where the actual Spanish presence was not so important, such as Brazil for example.

Among all the countries that have had Spanish influences, the best represented are Ancient Peru and today's Peru and Bolivia.