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Podcast: Centers for Disease Control Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team December 2, 2021
The Hyrtl Skull Collection isn't just medical history. Scientists continue to study the bones today.
anatomy museums

The Eventful Afterlife of a Crowd of 19th-Century Skulls

Philadelphia’s famed anatomy showplace, the Mütter Museum, gets a facelift.
April White October 18, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team September 13, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Museum of Quackery and Medical Fraud

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 15, 2021
Porto, Portugal

Museum of the Central Hospital of Porto

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.
An anatomical engraving from 1872.
libraries

Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.
Megan Rosenbloom January 29, 2021
Displays at the Weaver Dental Museum include a jumble of dentures.
Itinerary

6 Fascinating Medical Marvels in Pennsylvania

50 States of Wonder
Sam O'Brien
Video • Wonder From Home

Show & Tell: See a Collection of Dissected Skulls and Medical Marvels

14:07
A view of an exhibit in the atrium.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry

This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.
The exterior of Raeapteek
Tallinn, Estonia

Raeapteek

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.
Museo de Anatomopatología
Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de Anatomopatología (Museum of Pathological Anatomy)

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.
Museum interior.
Guthrie, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Video • Object of Intrigue

What Exactly Is a Bezoar?

3:13
Mount Airy, North Carolina

Siamese Twins Museum

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."
Video • Object of Intrigue

The Real Story Behind George Washington's Dentures

3:30
Wilson Greatbatch's tool box.
Clarence, New York

Greatbatch Barn

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.
Rome, Italy

Museo Storico Nazionale Dell' Arte Sanitaria

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.
Anatomical collection at Tübingen University.
Tübingen, Germany

Steinkind von Leinzell

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.