Museum sights in Catamarca

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   Museo Arqueológico Adán Quiroga

   • Catamarca, Argentina
   • Sights › Museum

   The fine Museo Arqueológico Adán Quiroga is reason enough to come to Catamarca if you have an interest in Argentine indigenous culture. A superb collection of pre-Columbian ceramics from several different cultures and eras is on display. Some – in particular the black Aguada ceramics with their incised, stylized animal decoration – is of truly remarkable quality. A couple of dehydrated mummies found at 5000m are also present, as well as a spooky shrunken head from the Amazon, and trays used to snort lines of rape (finely ground tobacco). There’s also a colonial and religious section.

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