Musée de la Médecine

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display

Category Medical Museums, Unique Collections

Among the Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate, Museum of Musical Instruments, and Children's Museum in Brussels, sits the decidedly less kid friendly, but nonetheless fascinating Musée de la Médecine.

The collection includes wax moulages depicting the horrific results of untreated sexually transmitted diseases, skin ailments, and anatomical models, all of which attempt to help guide you through the history of medicine. Less graphic, but still interesting, are the exhibits following the chronological development of medicine starting with Hippocrates, and covering such medical luminaries as Galen and Vesalius. Other exhibits are devoted to non-western medical traditions such as those of the pre-Columbian Indians and African traditional cures.

But undoubtedly the most compelling, though not for the squeamish, is the entire wall of anatomical waxes depicting reproductive organs, and body parts ravaged by a variety of sexually transmitted diseases.

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  • Address Route de Lennik 808, Campus Erasme, Brussels, BE-1070, Belgium
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