Museums in the City of Salta

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The city of Salta has the particularity of having museums of different themes that can be visited. Some of them are located in or near the downtown area, so you can visit them one after the other while strolling around the attractions located near the city centre.

Among the most popular are:
- Museo de arqueología de Alta Montaña (High Mountain Archaeology Museum): it is a very visited museum, as it preserves the so-called Niños del Llullaillaco (Children of Llullaillaco), which are three Inca children that were found lifeless on top of the Llullaillaco volcano at 6739 metres above sea level. The story is that they arrived there accompanying adults to a sacred ceremony called Capacocha that took place on the summit of the mountain. The children died there and were naturally preserved due to the high altitude climatic conditions. The objects they carried as offerings to the gods were found with them. They are now preserved in the museum in capsules that emulate the temperature and humidity conditions (cryopreservation) where they were found.
- Museo de Antropología (Museum of Anthropology): it is located at the foot of the Cerro San Bernardo (a hill). It has original archaeological pieces of different antiquity and places of the province of Salta.
- Güemes Museum: it is the house where General Martín Miguel de Güemes was born, and where he left the day of his death. It has rooms with audiovisuals that tell his story, since he was the governor of Salta and an important military man in the fight for the independence of the country.
- Museo Histórico del Norte (Historical Museum of the North): it is made up by the Cabildo and the exhibition rooms inside it. In the building you can walk through its patios and access its long balcony. In the halls there are exhibits from many different periods, ranging from the original peoples, the colonial period and reaching up to the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Uriburu Museum: it is an old house with objects from the 18th and especially from the 19th century.