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Anatomical museums are always of great interest to tourists. When history or art museums do not arouse enough interest, then before your upcoming vacation you should choose an exhibition that will truly touch your heartstrings.
Museum Vrolik
The playful museum Museum Vrolik (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was founded by father and son Vrolik. Translated from English-Dutch, the word “vrolik” means “perky”, which is why the museum received such a strange name. Gerardas Vrolik and William Vrolik were professors of medicine and studied mutations in humans. They collected a huge collection of mutations, which over time turned into a museum. The exhibits include Siamese twins, Cyclops children, and two-headed monsters. Mutant freaks of various stripes make a lasting impression on visitors.
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The Human Body Exhibition
The Human Body Exhibition, or exhibition of the human body, was first exhibited in Florida in 2005 and has since been held in many cities around the world. The geography of the exhibition is more than impressive: Winnipeg, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Atlanta, Vienna, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Niagara Falls (Ontario), Bogota, Cordoba, Barcelona, Cincinnati, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo , Prague, Bratislava, Sofia, Zagreb, Budapest, Belgrade, Lisbon, Atlantic City, San Diego, Las Vegas, New York, San Antonio, Washington, Omaha, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Sacramento, Tucson, Cleveland , Seattle, Detroit, Riga, Warsaw, Puerto Rico, Ljubljana, and Boise, Haifa, as well as Houston, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador (El Salvador), Bucharest, London. Embalmed human bodies are used as exhibits at the exhibition, dissected in such a way as to show, on the one hand, the complexity of the structure of the human body, and on the other hand, to show its beauty and harmony. Judge for yourself how beautiful it looks. It should be noted that the people whose bodies are displayed as exhibits, during their lifetime, gave written consent to the use of their bodies after death as drugs. Anyone who liked the exhibition can make a posthumous will on the spot and add to the exhibition after death.
Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg
The Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg was founded in 1714 by order of Peter 1. The Kunstkamera contains more than a million exhibits. If previously the exhibits were used for scientific purposes, now it is exclusively a museum of human mutations and deformities, where visitors can see with their own eyes the incredible metamorphoses that nature creates with human flesh. It is worth saying that in addition to the so-called “exhibition of freaks”, this museum is famous for its numerous exhibits that tell the historical past of many peoples of the world.
Museum of the Human Body in the Netherlands
The museum took twelve years to create. It took twenty-seven million dollars to create the collection. The building is located inside a model of a giant man, thanks to which it is possible to walk freely inside and get acquainted with the structure and functioning of the organs and systems of the human body. Museum employees are required to have a medical education and clearly answer all kinds of questions from visitors. If you want to improve your knowledge of human anatomy, then the Museum of the Human Body in the Netherlands is the ideal place for this.
Plastinarium
The Plastinarium Museum (Guben, Germany) opened in a small town on the border with Poland. The museum was organized by Gunther von Hagens, nicknamed "Doctor Death". He uses purchased human corpses as exhibits; among the exhibits there are also corpses of executed prisoners. Before becoming exhibits, the bodies are processed in a special way, as a result of which fat and water are removed from them, and their place is replaced by a substance with a structure reminiscent of plastic. In the museum you can find various sculptural compositions from dead bodies. So you can see a sculptural composition where corpses play cards or ride a horse. A visit to the museum gives rise to twofold feelings: many museum visitors cannot stand the sight they see and lose consciousness, some admire what they see and consider the doctor a genius.
