Museum of High Altitude Archaeology

Fascinating museum. We arrived at 11:10 and waited approx 15 minutes to enter the museum, buying tickets on the door. Really insightful if you have limited prior knowledge of Inca history and culture. An incredible opportunity to see The Lightning Girl mummy, very harrowing. Limited English translations so we missed understanding some of the exhibits, but to be expected in an Argentinian museum. The museum is quite small and can easily be visited within 1.5h. I’d love a larger collection and more stories, but overall a worthwhile visit.

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.

Very interesting museum and a must do in Salta. The exhibition is translated into English (or at least the main exhibition is). I would recommend to anyone visiting the area. You can tell great care was taken in explaining everything as best as possible and showing things with respect. The price for a foreigner was $13,000 in July 2025. For a national it was $6,000 and for an Argentinian student it was $2,000. You pay for the tickets at the entrance. When we arrived they told us we had to wait 20 mins until the next group were allowed, even though we didn’t go around as a group, I guess this is to steady the flow.

Many interesting artifacts including the bodies / mummies of three inca children preserved by frozen temperatures. May be jarring to some and frightening to children, which one should assume at the mention of a mummy. Very interesting dark and quiet exhibit room, 5 stars for that on its own, but overall left me wanting a little more by the end.

Great museum. You learn a lot about the incas and their relation with the mountains. It took us about 1h to go through every and we found it perfect. I really recommend it during your stay in Salta.

Interesting to see a lot of real inka artifacts in really good state. Also of course the 2 exhibited mummies are unique. However there are only few English description and the visit is easily doable in 30 minutes, which makes the foreigner price of 12000 pesos (04/25) far too high.

It was interesting to visit, and very glad I could read the Spanish, as the museum is not well geared for English speakers. Only one of the mummies was available to see, and over all glad I made the visit. Note photography is not permitted inside the exhibition.

Although foreigners need to pay double the price, the availability of english info is very limited. They have a QR code where you can scan the info in other languages but the wifi is not working. Content-wise, I thought 12K ARS would get me something more. Given the huge potential of the area it would be awesome if the museum had a bit more modern approach towards the explanations and collections of artifacts.