Guanajuato - Mummy Museum

(Local Name: Museo de las Monias) The Calzada de Tepetapa leads past the station, in the direction of Guadalajara, to the Municipal Cemetery (Panteón Municipal), which adjoins a macabre Mummy Museum (Museo de las Monias). Here, in a crypt, mummified bodies of men, women and children, all of them deceased within the last 120 years, are displayed in glass cases, their excellent state of preservation apparently being due to mineral salts contained in the soil of the cemetery.