Museums in Arequipa
Archeological Museum of the San Agustín Universtity
Intersection of Alvarez thomas and Palacio Viejo Streets. tel: (054) 28-8881 visits: l-v 8:00-15:30 exhibits a varied collection that comprises stone devices and human sacrifices rests , nazca culture ceramics, and ceramics of tiahuanaco, huari and Inca cultures and gold and silver devices from the Colonial and Inca epoques.
Archeological Museum of the Santa Maria Catholic University of Arequipa
Cruz Verde Street 303, cercado. tel: (054) 95-9636 visitas: mon-sat 9:00-17:30 created in 1909 it has 7 exhibition halls in which pieces of stone piecees, stone weapons and textiles from the different historic epoques of Peru.
Museum of The Andean Sanctuaries of the Catholic Santa Maria University
Santa Catalina Street 210, cercado. tel: (054) 20-0345 / 25-2554 visits: mon-sat 9:00-18:00, de 9:00-15:00 situated in front of the Santa Catalina Monastery , it exhibits the Ampato Lady , an inca mummy of a girl of about 12 or 14 years old that waas found at the top of the Ampato volcano by the climber Miguel Zarate,the archaeologist Jose Chávez and the anthropologist Johan Reinhard on september the 8 in 1995. the rests were found frozen and is assumed that has about 500 years of antiquity . According to the specialists is very probable that the girl was dead of a blow in the head with a granite five pointed macana. She was apparently the offer to apu Ampato