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 From 1822 to 1872, the situation of the National Museum was itinerant and precarious, going through several locales, despite the fact that their collections kept on growing.   In May 1872, a large part of the National Museum's collections were moved to the Exhibition Palace. The War and the Museum From 1881 to 1882, as a consequence of the War of the Pacific, the collection of the National Museum was taken to Santiago, Chile, as war "plunder". A valuable piece salvaged from the sacking was the Raimondi Stela and probably the collection of oil paintings of the viceroys, as well as the Raimondi collection, which was found in the Medical School of Lima. From 1880 to 1905, the destiny of the National Museum was marked by sacking and abandonment. They were times in which by unhappy coincidence the main archaeological collections were formed in the renowned museums of Europe, while in Peru there was no museum at all. Max Uhle and the National Museum In 1905, the National History Museum was installed in the Exhibition Palace, under the protection of the Historical Institute of Peru, being inaugurated July 29, 1906. Max Uhle was in charge of the Archaeology and Indigenous Tribes section of the museum, while History was entrusted to José Augusto Izcue. Dr. Uhle, as director of the museum, carried out the first field investigations in sites such as the Island of San Lorenzo (Lima), Nazca (Ica) and Choquequirao (Cusco). In 1911 he left the field and gave, as part of the national patrimony, the inventory of 8,675 specimens. Emilio Gutiérrez de Quintanilla replaced Uhle as Director, giving priority to administrative regulation.