The Museo Regional Adolfo Bermúdez Jenkins covers the cultures that flourished in this stretch of the Peruvian coast — Paracas, Nazca, Wari, and Inca — and does it well, considering the best pieces have long since been moved to Lima. The Paracas textiles are the highlight, intricately woven and still vivid in colour despite being more than two thousand years old.
Other rooms hold mummies, ceramics from the Nazca and Wari periods, and the trepanned and elongated skulls that fascinate visitors. Behind the museum is a scale model of the Nazca Lines, useful for anyone planning to head south to see the originals. The museum is small and can be done in under an hour.