"Museo De Las Momias" in Guanajuato

I have only just now decided to post photos from the Museo De Las Momias in Guanajuato.  For those of you who may be Spanish-challenged, as myself, you should know that the Spanish word "momias" is not the same as the English word "mommies", no more than the Spanish word "nombre" is the same as the English word for "number", even though the words look to be very similar.

These photos are not for the weak of stomach.  However, in the interest of morbid curiosity I have decided to place them on a page by themselves and you can decide whether or not to look at them or to show them to anyone else.

All of the mummies were in glass cases with very bad lighting.  It was almost impossible to find an angle that would not show reflections on the glass.  Photography was permitted without flash so you had to do the best you could with the available lighting.  It also didn't help that I was somewhat "weirded out" in this bizarre and macabre place, which made it somewhat difficult to concentrate on "good photography techniques".

These photos are not for the squeemish or easily upset.  Don't watch them in a dark place or by yourself.  If you don't like to watch horror movies perhaps you should have someone sit with you and hold your hand.

I strongly advise you to use good sense if you are considering showing these photos to young children.  You should be careful of who may be looking over your shoulder if you do decide to look through them.  Remember, I warned you.

Here is a description of the museum from Wikipedia:

"The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. These mummies were discovered in a cemetery located in Guanajuato, which has made the city one of the biggest tourist attractions in Mexico. All of these mummies were disinterred between 1865 and 1958, when the law required relatives to pay a tax in order to keep the bodies in the cemetery. If the relatives could not pay this tax, they would lose the right to the burial place, and the dead bodies were disinterred. Ninety percent of the bodies in the cemetery were disinterred because their relatives did not pay the tax. However, only 2% of them were naturally mummified. The mummified bodies were stored in a building and in the 1900s the mummies began attracting tourists. Cemetery workers began charging people a few pesos to enter the building where bones and mummies were stored. This place was turned into a museum called El Museo De Las Momias, The Mummies' Museum. A law prohibiting the disinterring of more mummies was passed in 1958, but this museum still exhibits the original mummies."