Guanajuato:
Museo de las momias displays
over 100 natural mummies,
discovered when their bodies were removed from their graves for failing
to pay a grave tax. You can find a gallery that features some of
the mummies here.
Mexico City:
Museo de El Carmen displays twelve unidentified Mexican
mummies as part of the museum's mission to "show the life of the monks of
the former Carmelite Convent of El Carmen" (also called Colegio de San
Angel). According to the museum's website: "They were unearthed by the
Zapatistas that occupied this site in 1916 during the revolution, who lifted
the heavy cover of the tomb looking for a treasure. The mummies are displayed
in wooden boxes lined with velvet, and their age is estimated at more than 300
years." You can visit the museum's mummies on this webpage.
