If you think all mummies looked like the famous image of the golden sarcophagus of King Tut, think again.

A new exhibit at the Orlando Science Center will let you see ancient mummies up close like you've never seen them before.

These mummified heads contain preserved skin, muscle and hair.

We got a sneak peek Thursday of Mummies of the World: The Exhibition before it opens to the public Saturday, displaying the largest collection of mummies and mummy artifacts ever on tour.

Mummies of the World challenges the very idea of what a mummy is: The artifacts in this collection are not all Egyptian, not all bandage-wrapped, and not all human.

A mummy of a cat on display at the Orlando Science Center.

Some mummies, for instance, were made naturally.

"Bodies will decompose where there's water and there's oxygen," said Dr. Heather Gill-Frerking. "So, if somethimg like that is missing, the body won't necessarily decompose."

Bodies that were mummified naturally were likely buried in either hot or cold dry environments with certain acidic components.

A mummified baby on display at the Orlando Science Center is part of an entire family found in a long-forgotten church crypt in Hungary.

Then there are some shrunken heads that may look familiar to us here in Orlando.

This shrunken head, in particular, reminds us of Dre Head from "Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban," whom you can meet at the Knight Bus outside Universal Orlando's Diagon Alley.

But historically, there was a culture in Ecuador that would shrink the heads of their enemies.

"You remove the skull and replace the material inside with the sand and pebbles," Gill-Frerking explained. "When that cools, you do it over and over again until it's shrunken."

Another mummy on display is that of a 17th-century nobleman wearing a pair of boots, which researchers believe he never wore in life, but were put on for burial.

Inisde the exhibit are nearly 45 mummies and a bunch of artifacts. Getting all those specimens from one city to the next requires VIP transport.

"Mummies travel in great comfort — unlike, perhaps, some of the curators," Gill-Frerking quipped.

Mummies of the World is at the Orlando Science Center for a limited time, from Saturday, June 13 through Sunday, November 29, 2015.