Medical Museums in Italy

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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...

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.