The collections of museums around the world contain amazing exhibits with aesthetic value. Modern institutions, which are an integral part of the cultural space of the city, acquaint visitors with the beautiful, but there are unique corners in which there are no ancient relics and priceless works of art. They contain unusual things that reveal the secrets of the human body. Such exhibits shock visitors and even cause disgust, but interest in them is only growing.
Not entertainment, but knowledge
Now every medical university has its own anatomical museum, where students study the structure of the human body, comparing the actual location of organs with images in atlases. Constantly growing collections are important for science and future doctors, but not for ordinary people who are prohibited from entering the halls. Such museums are not entertainment, they consolidate the knowledge gained about the structure of the body. According to doctors, this is the best test for professional suitability, and working with biological material is not always easy, because this requires a certain psychological preparation.
Journey to an unusual and scary world
It is also necessary for those whose familiar museums do not cause much interest. When you want to learn something new and unusual, an anatomical museum open to the public comes to the rescue, which is visited not only out of pure curiosity. This is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with natural visual aids that are in an alcoholic state and allow you to study the location of internal organs. Going on a trip, you need to prepare mentally in advance, since the appearance of some exhibits can catch fear on the layman and cause a real shock.
Two technologies
Exhibits in such a museum are called drugs, because they are made by preparation according to a special technique. They are either dried and impregnated with chemical compounds, or immersed in formalin, which kills all bacteria.
There is another technology that allows drugs to look natural - plastination. The fat and water present in the body tissues are replaced by synthetic resins and polymers, but our scientists cannot afford such a method, but in Germany they mastered it back in 1977, and ten years ago the Plastinarium museum was opened, which was called the “most disgusting in the world".
Plastinarium
Dr. Gunter von Hagens buys corpses of people, and before they become exhibits of a shocking museum, he removes fat, water and replaces them with a special substance that looks like plastic. The exhibition presents not only the outer shells of people, but also the lymphatic, blood systems, human organs that can be touched.
Now “Doctor Death” receives corpses from loyal fans living in other countries, and even dead people were unclaimed from his family were sent to him from Novosibirsk. The Anatomical Museum horrifies impressionable visitors observing sculptural compositions from dead bodies. Many lose consciousness from the appearance of dissected artifacts, but there are those who openly admire the skill of the German genius. In his defense, the founder of the exhibition declares that he pursues an educational goal and shows how beautiful the human body is frozen in eternity.
In a separate room there is a Kunstkamera, where a collection of various human anomalies is presented. With great curiosity, unique exhibits collected from around the world are viewed by adults. Mutants, alcoholic freaks, two-headed babies horrify the townsfolk who came to see death. Not the most pleasant reviews write about this museum, accusing the organizers of abusing human curiosity, and the line for the exhibition only lengthens.
Museum where you can see the work of the body from the inside
When it comes to world famous museums introducing visitors to the human body, one cannot but mention Corpus, which opened in the Netherlands, which allows us to see our bodies from the inside. A fascinating tour is annually made by hundreds of thousands of visitors who learn how internal organs work.
An unusual journey through the human body takes no more than an hour, and during this time people climbing the escalators from the legs to the brain, see in the increased size of the bones, heart, lungs, eyes, ears and in special glasses consider the various processes that occur with our body. This is the only anatomical museum that you can visit with the kids without scaring their exhibits.
Museum vrolik
In the Netherlands, where scientists have excelled in anatomical discipline, there is an impressive collection of all kinds of deformities, consisting of several thousand copies. It was collected by pathologists who have been studying mutations in humans for a long time. The "Rabbit" is surprising and horrifying, and among the exhibits there are mutant people: Cyclops children, Siamese twins, two-headed freaks and the like.
A huge collection of skulls and bones with defects, which began to be collected in the XVIII century, is constantly replenished and makes an indelible impression on visitors.
Anatomical Museum in Moscow
The capital of our country can boast of an amazing museum, which appeared in 1978 through the efforts of doctors working at the Department of Human Anatomy at Moscow State Medical University. Over more than 30 years, the collection has increased several times, and now it consists of 1, 500 drugs that can scare an unprepared viewer. In 2005, a large-scale reconstruction of a museum equipped with computer equipment was carried out.
An interesting approach was taken here to demonstrate the exposure - with the help of a color display reflecting the contents of the preparations according to the names of the organs and the numbers of the windows where they are located. Visitors examine the alcoholic internal organs of a person and learn a lot about the possibilities of modern medicine.
