Museo de las Momias is a cultural and urban proposal in Celaya, Guanajuato, located next to the Municipal Cemetery and the existing museum.

A tradition deeply connected to Celaya’s identity runs through the site: the Paseo de las Luminarias, a procession that symbolically accompanies the return of souls to the Panteón Norte each year. As it culminates in the cemetery plaza, this celebration turns the site into a collective gathering place. In this context, the museum is understood not only as an exhibition space, but as a cultural and public facility capable of expanding the relationship between memory, city, and community.

Through a scientific and anthropological reading of the mummified bodies, the proposal seeks to create a sensory and educational experience. The project offers an approach connected to the history, rituals, everyday life, and funerary heritage of Celaya.

The complex is organized through a sequence of plazas, platforms, and paths that connect the museum with the cemetery and its urban surroundings. The permanent exhibition is located underground, creating a descending route that culminates in the catacombs as the central moment of the experience. At street level, the stepped plazas, ticket office, café, shop, and entrances generate a new public space for the city.

The architecture condenses the program into a semi-buried volume to reduce its presence from the street and free up open space. The museum is conceived as a contained and silent piece, where the relationship between earth, movement, light, and structure accompanies a different way of approaching Celaya’s funerary heritage.