HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM The chroniclers and early travelers to Peru The times of setting norms for the Supreme Decree From the Inquisition to the Palace Tello, Valcárcel and Larco - The University and Independent Museums Transformation and new concepts of museology Contact with the West not only gave rise to a conflictive, unequal relationship between two worlds but also offered the possibility of recognizing other forms of behavior of people as different as the Americans.   This is reflected in the chroniclers' descriptions of their travels and reports on the life of our peoples, especially the writings of the first Spanish chroniclers like Pedro Cieza de León, Juan de Betanzos, Miguel de Estete, Pedro Sancho and Cristóbal de Mena and the "indigenous" chroniclers such as Garcilaso de la Vega, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Joan Santa Cruz Pachacuti and Titu Cusi Yupanqui. Later, a few dedicated themselves to setting up exhibition rooms and collections of exotic and remarkable objects, plants, animals and minerals as well as objects of the "ancient inhabitants". The principal systematic collectors were the bishop Baltasar Martínez de Compañón, the judge Pedro Bravo de Lagunas and the family Ortiz de Zevallos. Around the XIX century, foreign travelers like Leonce Angrand, Mauricio Rugendas, George Squier and Charles Wiener, traveled over the country drawing and recording data on the "Indians of the times".