First opened in August of 1964, the Amano Museum, now known as the Pre-Columbian Textile Museum, recently went through a years’ worth of renovations and reopened at the end of May 2015. After 50 years promoting and conserving Peru’s textile heritage, the remodeled museum in Peru's capital, Lima, doubled the exhibit space and improved conservation methods in anticipation of a large amount of visitors in the future. The permanent exhibit includes an impressive collection amassed by Amano including over 600 ancient textiles as well as ceramics from Pre-Inca cultures. Amano Museum Showcases Pre-Columbian Textile The concept of the museum started as a passion of Yoshitaro Amano, a Japanese businessman who relocated to Peru. Through his travels around the country he began to collect and preserve textiles that had been left to the elements without recognition of their true value. Originally part of his private collection in his Miraflores home, he soon started a foundation which became a renowned institution among scholars in Peru, Japan and beyond for Amano’s dedication to protection and preservation of Peruvian cultural and history. The Textile Exhibits The exhibit starts upstairs with an explanation of the emergence of textiles in different parts of the world and the first raw materials used. A large world map pinpoints the locations and raw materials native to each area of the world. The history of textiles in Peru covers the development of the Chavín, Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Huari, Sihuas, Lambayeque, Chimú, Chancay, Chuquibamba, and Inca cultures. The museum exhibits more than 120 textile works representing the long history of cultural development in pre-Columbian Peru, in addition to a room with display cases showing the various tools and raw materials required for the textile production that was explained in the first few rooms, such as dyeing, spinning, knotting, looping, and use