WORKSHOP

18 September 2026, 2:00PM - 5:00PM

Centre for Material Culture

Tickets £80, booking required

About the event

Discover the artistry and ingenuity of ancient Peru through a selection of Pre-Columbian textiles from the museum’s collections. This session offers a rare chance to see fragile fabrics up close and to learn how they were made, used, the symbolic meanings of their depictions, and how they have been preserved over centuries. No prior knowledge is needed, just curiosity about how threads, colours, and patterns can reveal the lives and beliefs of people long ago.

About the facilitator

Dr Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas is a Senior Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with responsibility for World Archaeology.

With a background in archaeology, anthropology and history, she specializes in the historical archaeology of the Americas and on the history and archaeology of colonialism with particular attention to Colombia. She is especially interested in Material Culture Studies and postcolonial theory to explore, analyze and interpret the interaction amongst indigenous people, Africans, and Europeans. More recently her research has focused on the study of metallurgy in the Americas during the colonial period and on Cultural Heritage and Museums. She has also worked in the pre-Columbian archaeology of Ecuador.

Important Information

• Workshops are for adults of 16 years +
• No audio or video recording is permitted of the workshops, without the clear permission of the Workshop leader and other participants
• Arrival and transport information to be shared post-booking
• Access details of the room will be shared, we will ask for information about access requirements.
• Refreshments will be provided midway through the session (tea, coffee, water, biscuits).
• Details about where bags and coats will be left, outside of the workroom.

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Image: Textile band, Paracas, Peru, Early Horizon Paracas/ Early Intermediate Period. MAA 1933.668