Iquique Regional Museums

Who thinks to go to a museum in the town they live in? My friend took me to check out the Iquique Regional museum downtown...which I have walked past a million times without realizing or paying attention to it. So we checked it out to see what was so great about Northern Chile. Turns out, there's some cool stuff about the native Andino people, some native wildlife, stuff about all the different salt mines that were once here, and tiny MUMMIES! The oldest and best preserved mummies in the world called the Chinchoro mummies...found on the beaches in Arica. And just think, I could have walked by that museum a million more times without ever knowing there were some sweet mummies inside...