The Regional Museum of the National University of San Martín (Spanish: ''Museo Regional de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín'') in

Tarapoto Tarapoto is a commercial hub town in the San Martín Province of the Department of San Martín of northern Peru. It is an hour by plane from Lima, in the high jungle plateau to the east of what is known as the ''selva baja'' (low jungle). Althoug ...

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, holds ethnographic and archaeological collections related to the Peruvian

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( selva alta and selva baja). The Museum holds the famous 450-year-old Shimbillo-Chazuta

mummy A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay fu ...

History

The UNSM Regional Museum was founded on July 13, 1993 under an initiative led by a group of university professors and the

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, Alfredo Quinteros García. In 2011, Bartholomew Dean of the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

established the Division of Anthropology at the Museo Regional-UNS

The

anthropological Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

research program of the Regional Museum-UNSM reflects the collaborative effort of members of the Department of Anthropology at the

and faculty from the Graduate School of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin.
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Collections

The museum currently houses more than 3,700 artifacts primarily from the

Amazonas Region Amazonas () is a department and region in northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca on the west, La Libertad on the south, and Loreto and San Martín on the east. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas. With a lands ...

of Peru. This collection includes a replica of the Bello Horizonte

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s (Petroglifos de Polish), Prehispanic

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and ceramic ware, numerous contemporary and ancient

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whorls, a diverse collection of

ethnographic Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

objects from the "Chacarero" collection, and the famous 450-year-old "Mummy of Shimbillo". The Mummy of Shimbillo's modern blanket and sacred new clothing were made by a women's association of organic

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...

weavers from the town of San Antonio del Rio Mayo, in

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. In December 2011, Warmi Awakuku in collaboration with the Anthropology Division (Museo Regional-UNSM/University of Kansas) ceremoniously re-wrapped the "Mummy of Shimbillo" in ornate woven cotton clothing (cushma), including a hoo

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Museo Regional-UNSM

Universidad Nacional de San Martín
* Museo Regional-UNSM Faceboo

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History

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