Trundle Manor looks, from the outside, like any other house in the neighborhood of Swissvale near Pittsburgh - except for the coffin on the porch. But the inside is filled with a wide assortment... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Outsider Art, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Miniatures, Memento Mori, Purveyors of Curiosities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by VonMinx and Nicholas Jackson

In the early 1800s, an operating theater was quite literally that—a combination of surgical operating room and stage theater, complete with an unruly audience of young doctors, nervous... »

Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Annetta and others

Opened in 1996 on the campus of the University of Maryland, home to the world's first dental school, the National Museum of Dentistry aims to show the world the history of dentistry. An affiliate... »

Medical Museums | Edited by CPilgrim, Dylan and 4 others

The collection of the Musées d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouviere has a long, complex history that is manifest in its name. The collection was begun by French anatomical master and professor of... »

Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

The Hunterian Museum has an amazing anatomy and pathology collection, amassed by John Hunter; anatomist, obstetrician, doctor, and dedicated collector of oddities (1728-1793). Hunter had a... »

Museums and Collections, Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and 2 others

Known as the "Island of the Mad," for 250 years the Island of San Servolo was the official mental asylum of Venice. Run by the religious order San Giovanni di Dio, the asylum opened in 1725 with... »

Strange Science, Medical Museums, Horticultural Marvels, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Annetta and Dylan

The Morbid Anatomy Library is a research library and private collection available to the interested public. The library makes available a collection of books, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Morbid Anatomy, Dylan and 2 others

Clemente Susini began working in a wax anatomical studio when he was only 19 years old. He wound up becoming the best wax anatomical modeler the world had ever known. The work in the Calagari... »

Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others

Born in Wisconsin in 1853 (five years after the state had been incorporated in the Union), Henry Wellcome studied medicine first hand at a young age, helping his uncle. At 17, he apprenticed... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Strange Science, Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Annetta and others

Housed in the attic of St. Thomas Church, Britan's oldest surviving operating theater looks much as it might have in 1822. One surgeon who operated there described it thus: "the first two rows... »

Pharmacy Museums, Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others