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The neuroscientist’s brain is brownish and small, but is otherwise virtually unchanged from the 1800s.
anatomy museums

A Man in 19th-Century Italy Preserved His Own Brain to Fight Eugenics

Visit Turin to see the organ—and learn how to preserve your own.
Dania Rodrigues February 18, 2025
A 1,000-year-old brain of an individual excavated from a 10th-century churchyard in Belguim is still soft and wet.
brain collections

The Mystery of 4,400 Preserved Brains—And One Scientist’s Quest to Solve It

The former undertaker collects human brains, talks to them, and hopes they won’t haunt her.
Olivia Young March 28, 2024
A formalin-fixed human brain.
Bengaluru, India

Neuropathology Brain Museum

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.
A formalin fixed human brain, ready to be handed to visitors.
medical museums

Visitors Can Touch Human Brains at This Indian Neuroscience Institute

It's like a petting zoo for organs.
Maya Prabhu September 21, 2018
<em>Starry Night</em>, Staff Pick 2017. This image shows hippocampal neurons after two days in culture.
brain collections

When Neuroscientists Become Artists

Beauty and brains.
Anika Burgess August 9, 2017
One of the preserved brains found in the grave.
brain collections

Found: Dozens of Naturally Shrunken Brains in a Mass Grave

There are very few examples of naturally preserved brains.
Sarah Laskow July 17, 2017
brain collections

The Inept Story Behind 100 Missing Brains at the University of Texas

Were they ever missing at all?
JPat Brown October 26, 2016
brain collections

The Neurologists Who Fought Alzheimer's By Studying Nuns' Brains

The 30-year partnership between convents and brain researchers has been unexpectedly rewarding.
Natalie Zarrelli March 24, 2016
brain collections

Meet the Brain Banker Who Keeps Thousands of Brains In His Lab In the Bronx

Natalie Zarrelli February 1, 2016
zombies

How 19th-Century Zombie Dogs Revealed the Workings of the Brain

Sarah Laskow October 27, 2015
brain collections

FOUND: 9 Mysterious, Well-Preserved Brains

Sarah Laskow May 26, 2015
insane asylums

A Lost Collection of Abnormal Brains Finally Gets a History

Allison Meier December 2, 2014
medical museums

The Fates of Famous Brains

Bess Lovejoy May 20, 2014
Permanently Closed
Silver Spring, Maryland

Mammalian Brain Collection

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.
brain collections

Curious Fact of the Week: Biggest Brain Collections

Allison Meier May 20, 2013
Permanently Closed
Austin, Texas

Brain Collection at the University of Texas at Austin

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.
Lima, Peru

Brain Museum

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.
New Haven, Connecticut

The Cushing Center

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.