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(KMOV) - The St. Louis Science Center just unveiled its latest exhibit, Mummies, Secrets of the Pharaohs. 

But before it hit the public eye, KMOV.com got to take a sneak peek at the pride of this collection, a baby mummy.

For our behind the scenes tour, we met up with Al Wiman , Vice President for Public Understanding of Science for the St. Louis Science Center.

Al met us at the Taylor Community Resource Center to see the mummy before its grand entrance as part of the new exhibit. 

Child mummies are very rare. Al says that he doesn’t know of any others in the United States.

A discovery like this has drawn a group of scientists from Washington University, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Florida State University, and even the American University in Cairo, Egypt, to search for clues into the mummies past.

The research team performed cat scans on the mummy so that they could get an in depth look at every aspect of the mummy, inside and out.

The Taylor Center is not open to the public.

After the display at the Science Center is gone, the mummy will be out of view so that study can continue.

Until then, the baby mummy will be on display at the Science Center as part of the new exhibit.

You can check out all the mummy memorabilia outside of the Omnimax theater.

While you’re there stop in and see Mummies Secrets of the Pharaohs the movie, it starts Friday, March 16.