Maria Reiche House Museum
Casa Museo María Reiche
The former home of the German scholar who devoted her life to studying and protecting the Nazca Lines, now displaying surveying tools, manuscripts and geoglyph models.
María Reiche (1903–1998) was a German mathematician and archaeologist who, from the 1940s onward, surveyed and protected the Nazca Lines for nearly fifty years, earning her the nickname “Lady of the Desert.” Her modest home in San Pablo is now a museum, preserving her bedroom, studio and surveying instruments, with manuscripts, photographs and geoglyph models on display. She is also buried here. The museum lies about 5 km north of the viewing tower along the Pan-American Highway. Admission is inexpensive, and it is often visited together with the tower.
Opening hours
About 09:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Nazca Lines Overflight
- Nazca Lines Observation Tower
- Palpa Lines
- Cahuachi
- Maria Reiche Planetarium
- Antonini Archaeological Museum
- Los Paredones
- Cantalloc Aqueducts