If you’re one of those people who prefers museums to hanging gardens and cafes, here’s an amazing museum to put on your bucket list, and just so you know, it’s not for the faint of heart. The Mummy Museum is what I’m talking about.

Located in Mexico City, the Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato is a place where you can relax with the mummies. The way this place came to be will blow your mind. It has a sad but interesting story attached to it.

It was a period when, in addition to the dead, apparently a small number of people were killed alive if they caught the disease to prevent it from spreading further among the masses. Because of this, the city cemetery began to fill up so quickly that the government had to enact a “grave tax” in 1865, requiring families to pay a certain amount of money to support their deceased relatives. The non-payment of the tax resulted in the excavation of the corpses from the pit which were then dumped so that the place could be used for another body.

Surprisingly, as the corpses were being dug up, it was discovered that a small percentage of the dead had become naturally moist. Everything happened due to the dry climate of the semi-arid region of Guanajuato, so the decomposition had reached a point. high and the corpses had been mummified.

Some of them are preserved with such perfection that they still have their eyebrows, ears and nails. Corpses are kept in airtight crypts as lack of oxygen slows the rate of decomposition.

Seeing people’s enthusiasm for the mummies preserved during the 1900s, the cemetery decided to put them on display, resulting in the creation of the Museo de la Momia de Guanajuato in the 1950s. It was removed in 1958, but by then the museum had already attracted so much attention that it still houses the original muses.

It can be seen that the eyes of some have calcified while the uterus and ovaries of some have left an imprint on the stomach and also that some of them wear shoes and socks.