An additional 10 galleries are devoted to the anatomic waxes, truly a treasure for art students who are learning anatomy. Each is a work of art unto itself these waxes were created from real corpses in the late s and early s to teach anatomy to medical students. Perhaps most strange is the "Venuses", models of nude women in alluring poses but with their abdomens pulled open and displayed.
Legend says that these were a favorite exhibition of the Marquis de Sade. In overcrowded Florence where it's hard to find a museum without a long line wrapped around the building, La Specola is often empty and quiet.
Its mission is "dedicated to the celebration and exhibition of artifacts, histories, and ideas which fall between the cracks of high and low culture, death and beauty, and disciplinary divides. While the museum itself is essentially one room and could benefit greatly from wall labels and some curatorial prose, the real gem of this museum is its offbeat programming. There are lectures by scholars, museum curators, and artists on topics ranging from Santa Muerte, alchemy, Victorian mourning photos and dissection.
Mouse taxidermy classes are particularly popular. Led by a "taxidermist-in-residence", class participants remove the skin from a real mouse, create an armature to pose the mouse as a human as was popular in Victorian England, and dress it in steampunk fashion.
In the past, the museum has hosted a popular flea market. Now there is a store that sells art, books, and objects related to "the intersection of art and medicine, death and beauty. Have you ever wondered what Einstein's brain looked like?
Nope, me either, but it's on display in Philadelphia at what is considered America's finest museum of medical history. The Mutter Museum is devoted to helping the public understand "the mysteries and beauty of the human body and to appreciate the history of diagnosis and treatment of disease.
The exhibitions feel like 19th-century "curiosity cabinets and display large collections of anatomical specimens, models, and medical instruments. The Mutter is one of Philadelphia's most popular tourist destinations as it has been on dozens of television shows.
The museum's founder is the subject of the book "Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine" It has educational programming for middle school and high school students with the goal of introducing them to the history of medicine.
Highlights of the collection include:. The Mutter also has a robust schedule of lectures about public health, science education and current events which strike a more intellectual and less ghoulish chord. Owners JD Healy and Cathee Shultz founded the museum to fill a void in death education which they felt was sorely lacking in American culture. As they say, death became their life's work.
Now in Hollywood, California, the Museum boasts a collection of terrifying objects and images including:. Typical of doctors in the 19th century, Dr. Warren collected anatomical specimens for study and teaching. Guiteau's brain and partial skeleton are also in the museum's collection.
Deputy Director Tim Clarke Jr. The scope of the exhibits is still being decided, he said. That's when Surgeon General William Hammond directed medical officers in the field to collect "specimens of morbid anatomy" for study at the newly founded museum along with projectiles and foreign bodies. A photograph nearly covering one wall of the museum's new Civil War exhibit shows amputated legs stacked like firewood.
The exhibit also includes the shattered bones of U. Daniel Sickles' lower right leg, mounted for display beside a pound cannonball like the one that hit him during the Battle of Gettysburg. Most of the museum's objects, including 2, microscopes and hundreds of thousands of human brain specimens, are in an off-site warehouse. They will be moved by next spring to a renovated warehouse across the street from the new museum.
Prior to being in Silver Spring, the museum was housed within a wing of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a facility that treats soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Close by were the leg bones of a certain Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, who donated his amputated limb to the museum and visited it regularly.
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