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London, England

Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
Kehl, Germany

German Epilepsy Museum

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.
Paris, France

Doctor Charcot's Library

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.
Leiden, Netherlands

Museum Boerhaave

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.
Ghent, Belgium

Dr. Guislain Museum

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Wien, Austria

The Narrenturm

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Williamsburg, Virginia

Eastern State Hospital

America's first public mental health facility.
Dusseldorf, Germany

C. und O. Vogt Institue of Brain Research Collection

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.
Venice, Italy

San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum

Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Vienna, Austria

Sigmund Freud Museum

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Risskov, Denmark

Aarhus Hjernesamlingen (Aarhus Brain Collection)

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.
Arquà Petrarca, Italy

Casa del Petrarca (Petrarch House Museum)

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.
Paris, France

The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."