The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC Lima) sits on the clifftop south of Barranco, in a concrete-and-glass purpose-built space with a sculpture garden looking out over the Pacific. Founded in 2013, it focuses on contemporary Peruvian art from 1950 onwards, with rotating exhibitions of national and Latin American artists alongside a permanent collection.
It's a quiet contrast to Lima's older institutions. The museum cafe-bar on the upper terrace, open to the sea breeze, is a pleasant lunch or coffee stop. Combine with the Mario Testino Museum a few blocks away for an afternoon of contemporary Barranco.