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Medical Museums

Copenhagen, Denmark

Medical Museion

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

A lithopedion extracted 55 years after it formed.

medical museums

A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother's Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades

"Stone babies"—or lithopedions—are incredibly rare.

Sarah Laskow October 29, 2018

Veterinary Museum of Missouri.

Jefferson City, Missouri

Veterinary Museum of Missouri

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

Musée Eudore-Dubeau

Montreal, Québec

Musée Eudore Dubeau

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

A formalin-fixed human brain.

Bengaluru, India

Neuropathology Brain Museum

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

A formalin fixed human brain, ready to be handed to visitors.

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Visitors Can Touch Human Brains at This Indian Neuroscience Institute

It's like a petting zoo for organs.

Maya Prabhu September 21, 2018

The museum.

London, England

Anaesthesia Heritage Centre

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

Do you want your hands to come out looking like these?

Museum of Sin

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Field tools.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Russian Museum of Military Medicine

Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.

University Museum of Sciences and Arts.

Anatomy Museum of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

Wax Museum of Andreas Syggros

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Two views of a coin from the Culion Leper Colony.

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'Leprosy Coins' and the Legacy of Stigma

In many quarantines, these coins were the only form of money that patients affected by the disease could access.

Gray Chapman February 13, 2018

Recreation of hospital ward

Yanan Shi, China

Abandoned China Medical University

Forgotten for decades, the first medical school built in Communist China is full of surprises today.

A section of the Great Thangka.

Xining Shi, China

The Great Thangka

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

London, England

British Optical Association Museum

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

An abandoned building once used by the Säter psychiatric hospital.

Säter Museum of Mental Health

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

Old surgical equipment at the museum.

Larnaca, Cyprus

Kyriazis Medical Museum

Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.

A 1716 portrait of Catherine I by French painter Jean-Marc Nattier.

objects of intrigue

What Happened to the Severed Head of Peter the Great's Wife's Lover

Don't believe the hype.

Natasha Frost October 20, 2017