ATHANATOS. IMMORTALDeath and immortalityin past populations

Introduction

This exhibition summarizes the different funerary rituals in different past populations and the scientific advances in the fascinating field of funerary archaeology and, at the same time, it will be an homage to the researchers that have passed away.

Venue

Exhibitions hall of the Nature and Man Museum.

Contents

The exhibition is divided in four different thematic units:

1. Social, cultural and religious implications of death.
2. Death from a biological perspective, including the natural processes preservating the corpse (natural mummification, preservation by natural salts, adipocira formation, corification, freezing, bog bodies, iron coffins preservation).
3. Funerary rituals through time (inhumation, inhumation with quicklime, cremation, cannibalism, abandonment, anthropogenic mummification).
4. The World Congresses on Mummy Studies.

Exhibition period

In order to guarantee the maximum number of visitors the sample will be open to the public during more than 6 months from December 2017 to June 2018.

Opening Date: Decembrer, 20th 2017

First day of public opening: December, 21st 2017

Closing Date: June, 3rd 2018

International Museums Day, May 18^th, 2018: Free entrance.

The accreditation of the conditions determining the application of one or another fare will be presented at the reception desk of the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre.

Notice: Online ticket sales entail management fees on the box-office price.

Tickets on sale at the reception desk of the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre & online sale at: www.tomaticket.com

WARNING

Some of the contents of the exhibition may hurt the sensibility of the visiting public. Please, bear it in mind especially for the visit with children.