"Dr. Eduardo Casanova" Archaeological Museum

Belgrano 445
Tel. 088-955006 / 088-955073
Open from 9a.m. to 6p.m.

This museum forms part of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Tilcara that is under the authority of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. One can appreciate objects that are representative of the Andean area pre-Hispanic cultures, the Diaguita culture and Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. There is an excellently preserved mummy on display complete with hair eye-lashes, nails, garments and buckles. There is also material from the period of the Inca Empire that occupied part of the Argentine Northwest between 1480 and 1520.
There is a reproduction of one of the graves discovered during the archaeological recovery work carried out on the urban plan of Tilcara.

Tilcara
Tilcara is located on national route No. 9,84km. away from San Salvador de Jujuy and 2,461m above sea level. This town was founded approximately in the year 1600 and is characteristic of the "Quebrada" with its "Collas" (Indians from the northwest) and its multicolored mountains. The erection of its church began in 1797, but was only completed in 1865. The entire area has a vast archaeological wealth, and its main site is the "Pucará de Tilcara" (Pucará: fortress).