Founded in 1766, the Fragonard Museum is one of the oldest museums in France. Honoré Fragonard was one of the first medical masters of France, and his extensive collection contains rooms devoted... »

Strange Science, Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Salamalecs and 2 others

As the criminologist Cesare Lombroso examined the skull of the autopsied the body of Giuseppe Villela, the notorious Italian criminal he had just dissected, he discovered a cranial anomaly known... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by Dylan

The Semmelweis Medical Museum contains some terrific objects: an anatomical Venus, an early X-ray machine, and the obligatory shrunken head, all housed in the very building in which Dr. Semmelwies... »

Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

Show girls, singing and dancing. A band with blasting bugles. A dental chair poised, at the ready, in the bed of a horse-drawn wagon. And there at the center of it all is Painless Parker, dressed... »

Medical Museums, Instruments of Science | Edited by michelle and wythe

The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik bills itself as “probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found... »

Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by Josh

"Mortui Vivos Docent; The Dead Teach the Living." So said Dr. John Collins Warren. Like many medical men of his day, Dr. Warren collected anatomical and pathological specimens to help in his... »

Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan and Henry

Steve Erenberg, aka Radio Guy, has what could only be described as a one-of-a-kind collection. The collection includes anatomical models, armor, scientific instruments, and objects that are... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by

Housed in the oldest hospital - it's where the King of Thailand goes when he is ill - and medical school in Thailand, est. 1886, the Siriraj Medical Museum abounds with medical curiosities. The... »

Medical Museums | Edited by michelle

While technically this museum closed in 2002, thanks to the intrepid efforts of the Science Museum of Minnesota and curator and collector Bob McCoy, the collection lives on as the "Questionable... »

Museums and Collections, Strange Science, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Retro-Tech, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by M Rebekah Otto

An extensive and eclectic collection of natural history specimens, ethnographic artifacts, and zoological items along with a plethora of miscellaneous oddities, the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow is... »

Strange Science, Natural History, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Instruments of Science | Edited by Annetta