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An illustration of pink canna from the early 1920s.
anatomy museums

The World Needs a Vagina Museum

One woman in London is dedicated to starting the world's first physical space wholly dedicated to vaginas.
Sarah Laskow April 28, 2017
Only a select number of patients can experience holding their own heart in their hands.
medicine

What It's Like to Hold Your Own Heart

Baylor University Medical Center in Texas is encouraging transplant patients to meet their former organs.
Lauren Young February 17, 2017
A blue whale heart, preserved by researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum.
animals

What Animal Has the Weirdest Heart?

There's a lot of competition.
Cara Giaimo February 14, 2017
Anatomical fugitive sheet of a male figure, 1573.
objects of intrigue

How Flap Illustrations Helped Reveal the Body's Inner Secrets

Sixteenth century scholars peeled away anatomical ignorance one layer at a time.
Bryan Gardiner January 4, 2017
A votive offering of two hands.
sculptures

Why Did Ancient Italians Bury Thousands of Clay Body Parts?

Feet, hands, eyes, ears, arms, legs, uteri, heads...thousands upon thousands of body parts.
Sarah Laskow November 18, 2016
Anatomical treasures were built often built on human tissue parts.
science

The Bizarre 17th-Century Dioramas Made from Real Human Body Parts

Dioramas of infants' skeletons adorned with lace and jewelry were seen as grotesque and beautiful.
Lauren Young November 17, 2016
Plastinarium
Guben, Germany

Plastinarium

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Antonio Scarpa's Head
Pavia, Italy

Antonio Scarpa's Head

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?
London, England

Hunterian Museum

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Brain of Helen Hamilton Gardener
Ithaca, New York

Wilder Brain Collection

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.