Anatomy Museums

Could this controversial parietal bone be the remain of the famed French philosopher?

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

Australia's first and only museum dedicated exclusively to bones.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.