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Notes from the Field: Museé Fragonard
medical museums
The Healing Saints and the Medicine of the Divine
medical museums
Curious Fact of the Week: The Irish Giant
Pavia, Italy
The Museums of the University of Pavia
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Permanently Closed
Austin, Texas
Brain Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.
Dallas, Texas
Adrian E. Flatt, M.D., Hand Collection
This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.
objects of intrigue
Objects of Intrigue: Amputation Knives
Paris, France
Museum of the History of Medicine
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Baltimore, Maryland
National Museum of Dentistry
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Permanently Closed
Pomona, California
The Southern California Medical Museum
A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.
Richmond, Virginia
Chimborazo Medical Museum
A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.
Permanently Closed
Risskov, Denmark
Aarhus Hjernesamlingen (Aarhus Brain Collection)
Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.
Bologna, Italy
Museo di Palazzo Poggi Anatomy & Obstetrics Collection
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki University Museum
A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.
Vienna, Austria
Sigmund Freud Museum
The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Brooklyn, New York
Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Naples, Italy
The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
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