The Juanita Mummy is in the Santuarios Andinos Museum in the city of Arequipa, specially created to exhibit the artefacts associated with the discovery of mummies in the homonymous region.
Juanita was a young Inca teenager sacrificed to the gods between 1440 and 1450, at the age of 12-15 years. Her body was discovered in 1995 on Monte Ampato still intact thanks to the low temperatures in which it has been preserved for more than 500 years. The discovery of the Juanita Mummy marked a real turning point for Peruvian archaeology and is one of the best preserved mummies in the world. Even her clothing is still intact.
Once inside the Santuarios Andinos Museum, visitors are accompanied to a room to watch a video lasting about twenty minutes which provides information about Juanita's discovery and the Inca culture. After the viewing, the tour ends by admiring the Mummy's body in a foetal position wrapped in the clothes she wore on her last day alive.