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Museo de Arqueológico de Universidad Católica de Santa María
The university-run Museo de Arqueológico de Universidad Católica de Santa María has interesting little displays on local excavation sites, as well as some artifacts, including surprisingly well-preserved ancient ceramics. The student guides can be less than enthusiastic, though their spiels are well rehearsed (small tips expected).
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Museo de Arte Virreinal de Santa Teresa
This gorgeous 17th-century Carmelite convent was only recently opened to the public as a museum. The colonial-era buildings are famed for their decoratively painted walls and restored rooms filled with priceless votive objets d'art , murals, precious metalworks and colonial-era paintings.
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Museo Regional Histórico Etnológico Municipal
The small Museo Regional Histórico Etnológico Municipal is housed in a tumbledown colonial building. Paintings, historical documents, maps and other paraphernalia pertaining to the city's history are displayed here. Most interesting are the satirical caricatures of stately 19th-century Peruvian elite.
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Museo Santury
Officially called the Museo de la Universidad Católica de Santa María, this museum exhibits the frozen body of an Incan maiden - 'Juanita, the ice maiden' - sacrificed on the summit of Nevado Ampato over 500 years ago. Tours consist of a video, an examination of burial artifacts, then a respectful viewing of the frozen mummy preserved in a carefully monitored glass-walled exhibition freezer.
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