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Follow on Google News | Wanna see a Mummy in the Mediterranean?A look at the Museum of Nature and Man in Santa Cruz.
By: VacationRentalPeople The museum was founded in 1958 and got its funds from the Section of Archaeology and Anthropology Museum of the City of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The first collection that was brought together was a collection of human remains that dated back to the prehistory of Tenerife, and over the next ten years funds were continuously raised in order to buy more new collections to add to the one unique collection they had The collections were of ethnographic and archaeological materials that came from other countries and continents such as Africa and Pre-Columbia America. In the museum today most of the exhibits is prehistoric archaeological remains that are of Tenerife and other Canary Islands cultures but they do have other cultures as well. In the museum is the largest collection on the culture of the Gauche who were the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, that migrated to the Islands sometime between 1000 BC and 100 BC. The museum is home to a few well preserved mummies and has one of the most modern ways of presenting mummies. The permanent exhibition is a gallery that is dedicated to archaeology and looks at the funeral rituals of the aboriginal world. These collections are in the museum displayed as skeletal and mummified remains of the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands. There are also objects that came from buried tombs of guanche kings, one of the key highlights being the preserved mummy of San Andrés. There are also exhibits of fine collections of ceramics and fossils of prehistoric animals from the Canary Islands and the rest of the world. These include the giant lizard of Tenerife, the Tenerife Giant rat and a megalodon shark tooth. With the building being a former civil hospital, it is ironic that it looks after a few mummies keeping them preserved in a similar manner to doctors and nurses in a hospital. End
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