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MuseumsSite Name: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, MNHN Alternative Name: Chilean National Museum of Natural History
Country: Chile
NOTE: This site is 137.36 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Santiago de Chile
Latitude: 33.44217S  Longitude: 70.68184W
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davidmorgan visited on 28th Jun 2019 A nicely laid out Natural History museum.

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San Miguel de Azapa Archaeological Museum submitted by bat400_photo : Example of a mummy from the Chinchorro culture, found in Northern Chile. Similar to exhibits at the San Miguel de Azapa museum. Photo originally posted to Flickr as cultura chinchorro año 3000 AC. Author: Pablo Trincado, 26 Sept 2008 (2008-09-26) This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The national museum of Chile shows the archeology of Central Chile through the Inca Empire and cultural artifacts of other indigenous people like the Mapuche or ancient cultures like the Molle. It has a replica of the Plomo mummy on public display.

The photo is illustrative for the latest comment, but is actually a Chinchorro mummy from the San Miguel de Azapa Archaeological Museum, north of Santiago.

Note: Scans unveil secrets of world’s oldest mummies. See latest comment.
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Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, MNHN submitted by davidmorgan : A bust of Alexander von Humboldt outside the Santiago Natural History Museum. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, MNHN submitted by davidmorgan : A fairly small moai in Santiago Natural History Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Scans unveil secrets of world’s oldest mummies by bat400 on Thursday, 12 January 2017
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THE world’s oldest mummies have just had an unusual check-up. More than 7,000 years after they were embalmed by the Chinchorro people, an ancient civilisation in modern-day Chile and Peru, 15 mummies were taken to a Santiago clinic last week to undergo DNA analysis and computerised tomography scans.


The Chinchorro were a hunting and fishing people who lived from 10,000 to 3,400BC on the Pacific coast of South America, at the edge of the Atacama desert.

They were among the first people in the world to mummify their dead. Their mummies date back some 7,400 years — at least 2,000 years older than Egypt’s.

Now, researchers are hoping to use modern medical technology to reconstruct what they looked like in life, decode their genes and better understand the mysteries of this ancient civilisation.

The 15 Chinchorro mummies, mostly children and unborn babies, were put through a CAT scanner at the Los Condes clinic in the Chilean capital.

“We collected thousands of images with a precision of less than one millimetre,” said chief radiologist Marcelo Galvez.

“The next phase is to try to dissect these bodies virtually, without touching them, which will help us preserve them for another 500,000 years.” Using hi-tech computer processing, researchers are busy reconstructing the mummies’ muscles and facial features.

“We want to see what they physically looked like, to reconstruct them and bring to life someone who died thousands of years ago,” said Galvez.

Researchers are also hoping to learn more about how the Chinchorro mummified their dead.

The Chinchorro, who apparently had a complex understanding of human anatomy, would carefully remove the skin and muscles of the deceased.

Using wood, plants and clay, they reconstructed the body around the remaining skeleton, then sewed the original skin back on, adding a mouth, eyes and hair.

A mask was then placed over the face.

The result looks like something in between a statue and a person — eerily lifelike even after thousands of years.

For more, see http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology
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Re: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, MNHN by Anonymous on Thursday, 24 February 2011
The museum photo second from right is the dare I say it the right one ---It is however closed till 2012 due to earthquake damage ---David Walters in Santiago. I am here with wifes family and exploring is not on the agenda tho it is one beautiful country

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