page_title: Hans Heinrich Brüning
section_title: Antiquities
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Heinrich Brüning / Life & career / Antiquities
caption_attribution_description: English: Museo Arqueológico Bruning, Lambayeque, Peru.
context_page_description: Hans Heinrich Brüning was a German-born Peruvian ethnologist and collector of antiquities.
context_section_description: By 1916, the ceramic pieces he had collected would no longer fit in his home. He decided to sell part of his collection to the Peruvian government for 60,000 Soles. They were put on display in 1924 and he was named the museum's first director (with a salary of four Soles per month),  but his tenure was short because he was in poor health, which prompted him to return to Germany for good in 1925. His full collection is now displayed at the Museo Arqueologico Nacional Brüning in Lambayeque, which opened in 1966.
  He died of a heart attack on July 2, 1928, in the city of Bordesholm, within a few days of his eightieth birthday.
caption: Brüning Museum
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