[3] President Alan García initially rejected this offer but ultimately accepted it, in the face of pressure from NGOs and political opponents, including Mario Vargas Llosa, then head of the museum planning committee.

LUM is identified with the human rights narrative, but the museum's planners sought to incorporate different viewpoints through a consultative process involving surveys and sample audiences from different ideological communities.

[6] The mayor of Miraflores, Carlos Canales Anchorena of the conservative Popular Renewal party, claimed that the closure was because LUM did not have a Civil Defence certificate, which would be considered a serious fault in the event of an emergency.

[8] Amnesty International had been scheduled to present its 2022-2023 Annual Report on the global human rights situation at LUM at 6 pm that afternoon; following the closure, the event was moved to a hotel in Miraflores.

[9] The museum's closure was deemed a political act and triggered protests and statements from institutions such as the Office of the Public Defender, Amnesty International Peru, the National Coordination for Human Rights, the European Union and the government of Germany.