The Museo del Cerebro ("Brain Museum"), at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas in central Lima, is one of the more unusual museum visits in the city. Founded in 2010, it displays over 3,000 preserved human brains in glass cases, each labelled with the disease or condition it documents — strokes, rabies, Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, tumours, brain damage from various sources.
It is a working teaching collection, open to the public a few mornings a week with a small fee. The presentation is matter-of-fact rather than ghoulish. Anyone interested in neuroscience, medical history, or just the curious will find it remarkable; squeamish visitors should think twice.