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Address:
Velásquez # 1775, Arica-Chile

Opening Hours:
Museum Hours: Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 hrs.
Special Summer Hours: Monday to Sunday from 9:00 to 20:00 hrs.

Contact:
Gustavo Espinosa Valdebenito
gespinos@uta.cl
masma@uta.cl
Phone: 56-58-205551 / 205555
Fax: 56-58-224248

Additional information:
This museum possesses the collection of mummies prepared artificially more ancient of the world, the "Chinchorro mummies", with 8.000 years of antiquity

Links:
Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa
Universidad de Tarapacá - Arica - Chile

Description:
10.000 years of history

100.000 archaeological pieces with archaeological context

Museum with permanent activity of record, conservation, education of museum, exhibition, investigation

Collection opened for investigators' study

Further Reading:
In www.uta.cl/masma