Don’t worry, one photo won’t spoil the fun of your own visit to the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, it’s definitely worth a visit. Apparently the first mummy was exhumed in 1865, he was a foreigner with no relatives in town, so why not put the corpse on display? The soil conditions created these unintentional mummies and the grave tax poor families didn’t pay was an excuse to dig up the bodies and put some of them on display. It is profane but an incredible look into the customs and rituals of the time and a reflection of where we all end up, just hopefully not in a museum. PS If you go to the Museum and are thinking about paying the extra cash to see the torture museum, don’t. Unless you want an museum experience that is so bad you can laugh about it later.
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