Visit the Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña (MAAM)

MAAM houses the famous "Children of Llullaillaco," the world's best-preserved Inca mummies.

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Museum of High Altitude Archaeology

The Museum of High Altitude Archaeology is an archaeology museum located in the historical center of Salta, Argentina, which conserves and exhibits collections related to the Capacocha child sacrifice ceremonies performed by the Inca in the high peaks of the Andes, mainly the Children of Llullaillaco mummies discovered in 1999 at the top of the Llullaillaco volcano. Inaugurated in 2004, the museum was specially created by the government of Salta Province to preserve and display the Llullaillaco findings, and during its first years it exhibited only a few artifacts, as it had to develop a unique exhibition system to correctly display and preserve the mummies that would not be completed until 2007.

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