The collections of museums around the world contain amazing exhibits of 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 that lack ancient relics and priceless works of art. They contain unusual things that reveal the secrets of the human body. Such exhibits shock and even disgust visitors, but interest in them is only growing.
Not entertainment, but knowledge
Now each medical university has its own anatomical museum, where students study the structure of the human body, comparing the real location of organs with images in atlases. The ever-increasing collections are important for science and future doctors, but not for the common people, who are forbidden to enter the halls. Such museums areentertainment, they reinforce 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 it requires a certain psychological preparation.
Journey to an unusual and scary world
It is also necessary for those who are not interested in the usual museums. When you want to learn something new and unusual, the anatomical museum, open to the general 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 alcohol state and allow you to study the location of internal organs. Going on a trip, you need to mentally prepare in advance, because the sight of some exhibits can strike fear into the layman and cause a real shock.
Two technologies
Exhibits in such a museum are called preparations, because they are made by dissection using 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. Fat and water present in body tissues are replaced by synthetic resins and polymers, but our scientists cannot afford such a technique, but in Germany it was mastered back in 1977, and ten years ago the Plastinarium Museum was opened, which was called the most disgusting in the world.”
Plastinarium
Dr. Günther von Hagens buys human corpses, 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 from Novosibirsk, dead unclaimed relatives were sent to him. The anatomical museum horrifies impressionable visitors who observe sculptural compositions from dead bodies. Many faint at the sight of dismembered exhibits, but there are those who openly admire the skill of the German genius. In his defense, the founder of the exhibition claims that he pursues an educational goal and shows how beautiful the human body is, frozen in eternity.
In a separate room there is a cabinet of curiosities, where a collection of various human anomalies is presented. With great curiosity, unique exhibits collected from all over the world are examined by adults. Mutants, drunken freaks, two-headed babies horrify the townsfolk who came to witness death. Not the most pleasant reviews are written about this museum, accusing the organizers of abusing human curiosity, and the queue for the exhibition is only lengthening.
Museum where you can see how the body works from the inside
When it comes to the famous museums of the world, introducingvisitors with a human body, one cannot fail to mention the Corpus that opened in the Netherlands, which allows you to see our body from the inside. Hundreds of thousands of visitors annually make a fascinating excursion to learn how the 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 feet to the brain see the bones, heart, lungs, eyes, ears in an enlarged size and, with special glasses, examine various processes, happening to our body. This is the only anatomical museum that you can visit with kids without scaring them with exhibits.
Museum Vrolik
In the Netherlands, where scientists have excelled in the 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. "Vrolik" surprises and terrifies, and among the exhibits 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 18th 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 that appeared in 1978 through the efforts of doctors working at the Department of Human Anatomy of the Moscow State Medical University. For more than 30 years, the collection has increased several times, and now itconsists of 1500 drugs that can frighten an unprepared viewer. In 2005, a large-scale reconstruction of the museum was carried out, equipped with computer equipment.
Here, an interesting approach was used to demonstrate the exposition - with the help of color indication, reflecting the content of preparations by the names of organs and the numbers of showcases where they are placed. Visitors examine the alcoholized human internal organs and learn a lot about the possibilities of modern medicine.
The value of the collections of anatomical museums
Famous museums of the world confidently declare themselves as significant cultural centers in which the heritage of mankind is concentrated. They have long been part of public life, and their collections have historical value.
Unique exhibits of anatomical museums are unlikely to bring aesthetic pleasure to visitors, but they are the foundation for the development of knowledge and the basis for scientific research in medicine. The collected collections serve to educate doctors and educate people.
