Osma last name comes from the Uxama name with which it was designated a city of the Celtiberian Arevacos located in the mountain range of Cameros, province of Soria, into the borders of the Ucero river, in Spain. In the primitive Christian time, was, according it is beleaved, seat of a bishopric.
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He was born in 4th May, 1901 and passed away the 18th September of 1967. The School of the Recoleta and the University of San Marcos, in its faculty of Laws, had him as a student.
Without a doubt, his great vocation was the arts, to that it dedicated all his life. In his house, without the pretensions to give it the character of a museum, Don Pedro hisself showed the important pieces of art that he acquired.
 
Pedro de Osma used to cross each room, stop before main works, explaining them and telling anecdotes.
His house was a meeting point when high dignitaries and important personages came to Peru. Numerous governments granted him hight merit distinctions.
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Located in the old and traditional district of Barranco and under the shade of ficus trees, it is risen the old residence of the Osma family, ordered to construct by Don Pedro de Osma y Pardo. There is conserved an elevation of the construction from 1906, signed by the Engineer Santiago Basurco.
There are two buildings that compose the house, one at the front and another at the back side. This last one was the dining room. Both buildings are french styled and eclectic per moments. Vitrales art novean, ceilings of metal, wrought plaster and spiders of crystal is brilliant in his more than ten halls. |
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| The buildings are surrounded by gardens with marble sculptures and spaces marked with palms and geraniums.
 
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