Museo Arqueológico UNSA — Attraction in Arequipa

Very small but well ordered and maintained museum with a decent variety of artifacts. Cost is low, was 5 soles per person. It only took us about 18 minutes to go through the small galleries and we enjoyed them and took our time. The mummies were very fascinating to see. No photographs were allowed in the interior gallery of the artifacts, but the lady working told us the small section after the ancient artifacts with the bench and holy family and replica heads was ok to photograph. Only improvement I would recommend to the museum is to add a English version of the write up on more of the displays; about half had both Spanish and English language write ups, but a couple more would be neat. Overall, it’s...

It’s a very short museum, maybe 15 minutes or so, but it has some neat artifacts and some beautifully preserved mummies. Visit is only 5 soles ($1.50ish) and I enjoyed it well worth that. My only problem is that there was not much information in english (or Spanish, for that matter) and I didn’t see anywhere to get a guide- but I also didn’t ask. This little museum is definitely...

Small but cool and well kept museum with ancient tapestry, big collection of pre-incan ceramics, mummies, wood carvings. Maybe the most interesting museum in Arequipa. Lovely lady named Gloria made me a short but informative tour for free. I popped for 15 minutes but spent there almost an hour. Worth to visit. Entrance fee is...