When we hear the word «mummies», our mind is transported to Egypt; however, in Mexico we are lucky to have the largest collection of mummies in the world.

The Pantheon of Santa Paula is home to the dark museum that has captured the attention of tourists visiting Guanajuato and that cannot be missing in your itinerary, along with the Alley of the Kiss, the Alhóndiga de Granaditas and the University.

Here we tell you a brief story about the mummies of Guanajuato so that you get informed on the tour.

¿How were the mummies of Guanajuato formed"

Unlike other places where they were created as part of a funeral ceremony, the mummies found in Guanajuato were formed during a natural process derived from the dryness of the land in this part of Mexico and the presence of minerals.
Most of the mummies come from the cholera epidemic that the city of Guanajuato suffered in 1833. Years later and due to the overcrowding of the cemetery, the local government decided to charge a perpetual right that few paid to preserve the body of their relatives in the place they occupied.

This is how the local government began to exhume them and, to his surprise, he found bodies in good condition.

The mummies of Guanajuato belong to ordinary people like us and not to kings or great warriors. The first mummified body discovered was that of Remigio Leroy, a French doctor who died during his visit in Guanajuato and is now exhibited in the museum in an elegan...