Museo De Las Momias

Wow, looks like our pubic hairs are the last thing to go.

As far as I know, they ran out of space in the cemetery and when the dug up the graves to move them, they discovered that the minerals in the mountainside had preserved these bodies. Most of these mummies are less than 100 years old. Many of them look as though they were buried alive, in regular clothing and with excruciating expressions on their faces. Some were naked, and up until recent times there were no glass containers housing the mummies, and people would literally snap off the dicks of poor old dead folks and take them home as a souvenir. Gross, right? Well if you are interested in the the dead, or the gross, or the gross dead, you should definitely stop by when you are in Guanajuato. It is inexpensive and VERY interesting.

It’s gross and boring at the same time.

This is a strange place indeed. There are a variety of bodies present, mummified by priests. They include small children and people of a variety of ages and there are a lot of them. Pretty remarkable and very weird. It’s high up on the hill, quite a walk from the town center, but doable on foot.

The most strange part about it is that there is a second exhibit, “The Cult of the Dead”, which is something like a haunted house, only about a third of the stuff in it is real people’s bodies. In includes things like 3D holograms of beckoning fingers and glow in the dark skulls mixed with (you guessed it) mummies. It makes for an odd, somewhat unsettling experience, but is worth checking out if you have the time and inclination.

Get a guide. There are no cards or anything by the mummies. Though, who knows if anyone knows anything about them or if they were just dug up . . .