Resumen de Mummies and kids: A new museographic strategy

Milagros Álvarez Sosa, Irene Morfini, María Nieves León Hernández

• Museos Tenerife Naturaleza y Arqueología (MUNA) holds in its collection guanches mummies that exercise a power of attraction in everyone who visits it This shows that the human remains have the abi lity to excite, educate, and evoke wonder and curíosrty.

  For thís reason, this institution decided to conduct a study focused on special visitors, the children, encouraging them to ask themselves all kinds of questions about the exhibition of human remains of past cultures in order to understand human history. This paper illustrates the results of this study. realized on a number of kids in school age - between 6 and 19 years old - belonging to different schools in the lsland of Tenerife who visíted the exhibition, and especially focuses on the reactions concerning the room containing human remains.