Its former headquarters, located at the Park of the Exhibition,[1] now house the Metropolitan Museum of Lima since 2010.

In 1910, its permanent transfer to the Palace of the Exhibition was arranged, where he shared the facilities with the Municipal Council of Lima.

[1] The founding of this ministry constituted a milestone in the restructuring of the Peruvian state in the aftermath of the War of the Pacific.

From the founding of Peru until then, there had only been five ministries: Government and Police; Foreign Relations; Justice and Instruction; Finance and Commerce; and War and Navy.

The new ministry attracted a new bureaucracy, made up of engineers, sociologists, economists, doctors, and geographers.