Mexico Museum of The Mummies

Mexico Museum of The Mummies is a museum where the mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico are saved. The Museum safe about 119 mummies on display or even more. The mummies at Mexico Museum of The Mummies can found in the cemetery of Guanajuato, a city northwest of Mexico City (near Léon) high on a Trozado hill overlooking the city. The attracting of this museum is here a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833, and in the 1900s the mummies began attracting tourists. The most famous tourist attraction of this Mexico Museum of The Mummies is the museum is located above the municipal cemetery of Santa Paula. Visitors enter along a row of shops selling all types of tourist trinkets; wandering vendors smilingly offer candy mummies. A halloween atmosphere with a delicious anticipation of fright prevails.

The mummies were "dug up" between the years 1865 and 1958 when a local law required relatives to pay a kind of grave tax. Because of many family could not pay this tax for three years from the require law announcement, the body (which had, by the way, become accidentally mummified) was dug up from the cemetery and (if the fee still wasn't paid) placed on display in El museo de las momias(Mexico Museum of The Mummies). The corpse were dug up abut 90%, and just amount 2% were mummified.

Fortunately, in 1958, the law was changed. Although no new bodies have been exhumed, the museum still displays the original mummies.

A The mummies are made from a combination of the soil conditions and a dry climate of the mountainous area which caused the bodies in the local cemetery became dry out naturally before they could decompose.

The mummies in the Mexicco museum are some of the strangest ones ever placed on display. Some of them are displayed standing up.Some are clothed, some aren't. A few are wearing only their socks and/or shoes. Some are old, others are only infants. One tiny baby mummy is labeled, "La momia más pequeño del mundo"--the smallest mummy in the world. The baby and the mother (they died during a caesarean section) are in the museum, but they will not be found together.

You may visit the Mexico Museum of the Mummies through the closest airport Léon or you can take a bus from Mexico City because train service from Mexico City is no longer available. Beside that, you must have a courage to face a horrible mummi face, because once some of the mummies were buried alive accidentally and so that some of their face are more strange.