Before exploring the restored complex, visit the on-site museum, which displays items excavated from the site including pots from the Lima and Nievería, funerary masks, musical instruments, weaving equipment, and mummies. An exhibition is dedicated to Peruvian archaeologist Arturo Jimenez Borja, credited with saving the site from destruction but controversial for the changes he introduced.
Many private and small-group half-day tours that stop at Huaca Huallamarca include Huaca Pucllana, a pre-Columbian site in Miraflores, and the Larco Museum, with an extensive collection of pre-Columbian artifacts. Other tours journey through the downtown area (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and take in sweeping views of the city from the tower at the Convent of Santo Domingo, followed by a three-course Peruvian fusion meal.