Museum of High Altitude Archaeology

Mummies in well persevered condition. Many many display is in literature and the items are comparatively less. No student discounts for international students, which worth considering. Because the youth generation and the most group worth investing in and its previous they come all the way and are still willing to learn the local salta and inca history, not mention how impactful this can be in their life’s. Argentinian and Inca culture are under severed and earn small broadcasting in the international world ( which is not good and Argentina worths more). And Young people and students are an excellent group who will share their knowledge back in their countries. Considering students are poor with less spending power compared to mid age adults. WHY NOT take the chance of educating more foreign students with a discount price? ARS16000 is not reasonable considering the amount of displayed items (only two floors with small rooms and a special painting exhibit)

Small museum dedicated to mostly one discovery of the mumified children and a bit of Inca history surrounding it. Only one of the three children is on display at a time, you can see which one before buying tickets. Ticket for foreigners is 16,000 pesos which I think is rather high price for small museum but I understand maintaining the mummies is probably a demanding task.

Seeing the Inca mummies in the Salta museum was incredible. They’re so well preserved because of the volcanic conditions, and the museum explains everything respectfully. Most of the info is in English too. The exposition made me think a lot about the Inca culture. As a foreigner I paid 16000 ars entry fee on 23/11/25

This museum is undoubtedly incredible, with amazing artifacts and preserved history! One of the best in terms of contents that we've been too in recent years. The mummy's themselves are equally shocking and fascinating and are truly unique. It's a shame that there are a number of fundamental issues with how the museum is organsied that impact the experience of visiting, things that are not difficult to change and would take very little effort to amend. - Overcrowding at opening is extreme. There are no entry slots for pre-booked tickets, with them all saying 11am. This results in everyone with a ticket arriving at the same time, as well as anyone without a ticket, who wants to make sure they can get a ticket on the day. This results in long queues outside and ridiculous overcrowding inside what is a very small museum. It forces you to arrive at 11am with everyone else and get crammed in with barely room to move. I do not see why this hasn't been resolved as it seems like a very easy fix to stagger pre-booked tickets - Ticket service 'vamos' is unreliable and a poor third party to manage tickets, including not working with foreign credit and debit cards - As many have mentioned, if you are going to charge double for tourists (which I have no problem with at all in principle) at least ensure that there are multiple languages for the text. Some is translated but much is only available in Spanish. This is not an issue in principle, but when charging double it becomes one.

This museum is really small and people are mostly attracted to see the frozen kids here. So, think ahead of you want it. The whole visit is no longer than 30 minutes. I like history and read a lot about Incas, but something wasn't right for me watching this poor kid exposed for the curiosity. But I understand that this is just a difference in morals.

Great little museum. I was there for about an hr. There are some pretty interesting and intricate artifacts, but the highlight is definitely seeing the mummy and reading about the sacrifice. There are three mummies of which 1 is on display for 8 months at a time. You can see pictures/videos of the others however. There is also a 2nd mummy that was found in the 1920s (and lost on the black market until recently) that is also on display and looks like it’s from a horror movie. Great museum and a bit creepy. Especially with the eerie music playing.

Relatively interesting but small museum. I completely understand that tourists pay the double price compared to nationals and four time the entrance fee for people from Salta… however, since most of the explanation is in Spanish and there is only few elements translated in English… the price is not fair. You could, at least provide a paper with the translation in English

Absolutely fascinating museum documenting the discovery of three incredibly well-preserved Incan children who were buried as part of a ritual. The museum is fairly small, but covers a lot of information on the archeological team who uncovered them as well as the Incas and the rituals performed. There is only one body on display at a time for preservation sakes, but there is also another Incan mummy on display too in a separate exhibition. Cost for foreigners to enter was 12,000 pesos, less for Argentinan nationals and even less for locals. Well worth a visit.