When it comes to mummies, many people may think of the scene from the American TV series "The Walking Dead", which depicts an earth full of dangers and zombies spreading, giving people a chilling feeling. If there was a museum dedicated to mummies, would you feel horrible and scared? There really is such a museum in the central city of Guanajuato in Mexico. It not only displays the local customs and rare treasures of Mexico, but the most popular thing is the mummies on display in the museum, which number more than one hundred. It is a real human corpse, and it is extremely authentic. It is really unique! This museum has been established for more than sixty years. The government has also attached great importance to it and invested huge sums of money to give the mummy exhibition a different kind of reality. Now it has become a popular tourist attraction. Tourists say they are a bit scared. What kind of museum is so scary yet so popular?
Guanajuato experienced a cholera epidemic in 1833. People who were suspected of being sick were buried alive, so some mummies looked very painful. Others were buried underground from 1865 to 1907, but due to the unique characteristics of central Mexico Due to geology, these corpses were preserved intact without decay and became mummies in the exhibition hall.
The Mexicans’ views on death are different from ours. They believe that doing this can allow the souls of the dead to reincarnate, and they are not disrespectful to the deceased. Later, in 2009, the government spent a lot of money to renovate the museum, divided the mummies into categories, made the mummies stand up, and sealed them with glass to display them more intuitively in front of tourists, making them feel as if they were standing on them. Just talk to them directly in front of them.
Some of these mummies still have very ferocious expressions of pain, maintaining their last posture in life, and some are still wearing the clothes and jewelry they wore when they were buried. In front of each mummy are their great achievements and careers during their lifetime. Introduction, there is also the smallest mummy, which is the treasure of the museum. A baby boy who was about to be born died together with his mother during a caesarean section. It was very shocking to see such a small mummy with a painful expression on its face. . The exhibition hall is very simple, and the dim lighting has an eerie feeling. Hundreds of mummies stand up and look at you, which makes it even more terrifying.
When you come here, you may be surprised that there are such strange museums in the world. When you leave the museum, you will see a sentence written on the wall: How do you want to be remembered? Obviously, the culture of death is very different in different countries, but many Chinese tourists have reported that it is worth a visit, but they are still timid and cautious. So do you want to come and have a look?
