National Museum of Natural History
Neoclassical natural-history collection anchored by a hanging whale skeleton and an Inca child sacrifice found frozen in the Andes.
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This guide to the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago follows Guillermo Chacón, who climbed to 5,400 meters on the mountain El Plomo hunting for buried treasure in February 1954 and found something else entirely. It traces what he and his companions did next, and how word eventually reached Grete Mostny, the museum's head of anthropology. You'll hear how researchers later pieced together what had happened on that mountain centuries earlier, and an Inca ritual called capacocha. Look for the case near the entrance before you learn what's really behind the glass.
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