Pathological-Anatomical Museum
Uni Campus, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna - Austria
Phone: +43 (0)1 406 86 72 2 - Fax: +43 (0)1 406 86 72
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Housed in Vienna’s former mental asylum, the Narrenturm, or Fool’s Tower, this museum has exhibits on all kinds of illnesses. The tour takes visitors from cell to cell and, using models, pictures and real body parts, some dating back to the 1870s, informs them about the symptoms, courses and treatments of various diseases, infections and ailments including tuberculosis, STDs, alcoholism and the disfigurement of babies. Potentially gruesome, the displays manage to graphically inform and educate rather than blunder into the tasteless and the tour is a must for those interested in the history of medicine.
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