EXHIBITION

Chinchorro Mommies...Site Museum.

Last year, in October, I visited the new museum “Colón 10”, located in Arica city, extreme north of Chile. This museum has a spectacular exhibition of ancient mommies of the Chinchorro culture.  

The bodies and skeletons remains exactly have they were found by the archaeologist and they were covered by thick glass.

You can walk over the glass and see the authentic funerary mummification techniques and identify the black mummies, red mummies and bandaged mummies. The display doesn’t use copies or reproduction bodies.  

The Chinchorro´s people originated in the Camarones valley, around the 7000 BC and expanded through the Atacama Desert costal between Ilo valley in the north and Loa river, in the south. They were fishermen, and they used simple but very efficient technology.

I love the site Museum of  Colon 10!

I liked the exhibition, and I think that is something unique of our country. 

You have to go!