Norway | Oslo |
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About The Norway Museum of Science and Technology is home to the National Museum of medicine. Established in 2001, the museum focuses health, the health care system and the evolution of medicine. There are many everchanging exhibitions at the museum. A recent one: the Mind Gap focuses on the brain and brain research. The museum also has a large library. |
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Sweden | Stockholm |
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About This feat of neuroscience, computer science and engineering allows you to see you brain when you look in the mirror. It is an exhibit that travels around Europe. This Feat of neuroscience, computer science, engineering, and art allow you to see your brain when you look in this mirror. Scientists and artists can together to create an interactive way to view the human brain. Put on the helmet and every turn of your head will give you a new perspective on what is in your skull. The exhibit travels around to various museums of Europe. For more information email info@brainmirror.se or visit the website. |
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Latvia | Riga |
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About The Latvian Museum of Anatomy was established in 1920 as a training museum for the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Latvia. It was the first medical museum in the country, and its collection was based on that of its founder, Gastons Bakmanis (1883-1964). Over the course of time, the collection has been supplemented by employees of the Institute of Anatomy in terms of objects related to embryology, anatomy, pathology and comparative anatomy. An important segment of the collection is made up of bones found during archaeological digs in the 1920s and 1930s. Since July 1987, the Anatomy Museum has been a branch of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine. It attracts some 11,000 visitors each year for tours of the more than 5,000 exhibits that are featured there. Anatomical exhibits are presented in two halls at the museum. One centres on normal and topographic anatomy, while the other offers a look at pathological anatomy. Of importance in the exhibition is the collection related to embryology, in particular looking at anomalies in infants which occur as the result of harmful habits of their parents. This offers visitors a chance to really think about how delicate the human body is. |
Relevant People:Gastons Bakmanis |
Croatia | Zagreb |
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About The Croatian Institute for Brain research is an affiliate of the University of Zagreb Medical School, and an independent research facility and archive. Its founder Dr. Ivica Kostovic established Zagreb’s neuroembryological collection; a significant collection of preserved human brains at various stages of development. It is one of the largest collections of human brains in the world consisting of 1,300 developing and adult brains. It has served as a valuable resource for many research projects, more than 30 PhD theses and upwards of 200 publications. The Institute even has a dormitory for researchers wishing to visit and utilize the collection. However, the institute is currently creating an online catalogue of the collection that will be readily available to those who cannot travel all the way to Croatia. |
Relevant People:Professor Ivica Kostovic |
Hungary | Budapest |
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About The Semmelweis Medical History Museum was opened in 1965. Its collection covers Hungarian medicine, pharmacy and medical system enriched by the objective relics of western medicine. The permanent exhibit is dedicated to the development of western medicine from the prehistoric age to the beginning of the 20th century with emphasis on the development of Hungarian medical system, the work of Semmelweis and the establishment of the modern Hungarian medication. Joined with the National Medical History Library and the Archives, S.O.M. is an important research basis of the Hungarian physician history. |
Relevant People:Ignaz Semmelweis |
Poland | Kraków |
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About Located at the Chair of Pathomorphology in the Jagiellonian University Medical College, this one of Poland’s richest collections of anatomopathological specimens, belongs to Józef Brodowicz and Ludwik Bierkowski, who began collecting specimens more than a century ago (1831-1834). The faculties of the Medical College treat their history with reverence, oftentimes through the preservation of unique exhibits and collections. The museums serve not only for conducting classes but also for carrying out historical research. Some remain open to the general public, giving everyone the opportunity to learn more about different types of medical equipment used in the past, how medicines looked and how they were prepared, and what unusual ingredients were used in the production of ointments and pills used to restore the health of our ancestors. Numerous anatomical and anatomopathological specimens are included in these collections. |
Relevant People:Józef Brodowicz and Ludwik Bierkowski |
Scotland | Edingburgh |
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About The museum was opened to general public in 1832, it houses one of the largest surgical pathology collections in the UK. Located at the, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW – S, the museum is currently closed for renovations but it will re-open in the summer. Their collections include various neurological specimens with various skull and brain samples. |
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Austria | Baden |
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About Baden is an Austrian city located close to Vienna. In the Rollett museum, one can see the skull collection of Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, the founder of phrenology. The collection is consists of 119 busts, 78 skulls, 20 wax patterns and 25 masks, including the death mask of Napoleon I. |
Relevant People:Dr. Franz Joseph Gall |
United States | Buffalo |
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About Taken as a whole, the Brain Museum’s collection demonstrates how the components of our nervous systems work together. Visitors can see the brain’s layers and internal structures firsthand and view them from different angles. At the original South Campus location, almost 90 beautifully illuminated brain specimens highlight anatomical features such as the corpus callosum, hippocampus and cerebellum. Pathological specimens show conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral aneurysms and hydrocephalus. Dissections show the full pathways for vision and hearing, and photographs offer closer views of the brain’s intricate structures. A display that highlights the achievements of groundbreaking researchers in neuroanatomy sets the discipline in its historical context. The museum also houses a world-class collection of slides that display stained cross-sections of brain tissue, which medical students and researchers can consult by arrangement with the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences. |
Relevant People:Harold Brody, MDSecond location at th Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus |
Austria | Vienna |
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About The famous collection of wax anatomical and obstetric models is the result of a personal initiative of Joseph II. Inspired by the wax models in “La Specola” in Florence, commissioned by his brother (the Grand Duke of Tuscany and later Emperor Leopold II), Joseph II ordered 1,192 models for the newly-founded academy in Vienna. These were produced in Florence between 1784 and 1788 under the supervision of director Felice Fontana and anatomist Paolo Mascagni and eventually arrived in Vienna after a wearisome journey over the Alps. They were intended to serve on the one hand as visual aids for teaching, but on the other they were, even then, intended for the general public. The majority of the models survived to this day and they are exhibited in six rooms in their original rosewood and Venetian glass display cases. |
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