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The facilities of the Santuarios Andinos Museum, which houses the Mummy Juanita, will be expanded aiming to show visitors unedited pieces found in pre-Inca tombs, reported Jose Antonio Chavez, head of the cultural complex.

There will be three new rooms to be installed in the complex, located one block away from the main square of Arequipa, he explained.

The new atmospheres will house the mummies and the offerings found in their tombs that were located in the volcanoes Sara Sara, Misti and Pichu Pichu. The investigation center of the Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria (UCSM) excavated and explored these areas since 1979.

The director of the Santuarios Andinos Museum said that one of the rooms will house the only mummy found in the Sara Sara volcano next to its offerings.

The second room will house 6 mummies that were found in two different tombs in the Misti volcano, which will also be exhibited with their ceremonial pieces.

In the third room, the tourist will be able to appreciate 2 mummies found in the Pichu Pichu volcano.

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