The Manuel M. Villada Museum of Natural History sits within the same historic-centre complex as several other Toluca museums. The natural-history collection is modest — stuffed birds, fossils, geology — but the museum has a long-standing local reputation for its small group of mummified human remains, displayed in glass cases at the rear.
The mummies were recovered from a Toluca crypt in the late 19th century, and the stories told about them — one of a fake priest, another of a bandit's wife — are colourful enough to keep the museum on every list of curiosities in the State of Mexico. It is a small place; allow 30 minutes.