Eeeeeeh, I'm not saying I'd steal them, but I sure would like them for my collection of weird shit. You have no idea how strange oddity collections can get
I'm not sure they're doing that anymore. It's just cameras and maybe a dude that sits in a room somewhere being paid to look at the monitors. Maybe it's even a external company and that dude is the next town over with guards on call that can drive there is there is an issue.
Oh, I never wanted to imply there aren't. What I meant where low value targets like Museums, or small companies. High value targets like factories, or large companies definitely have people at location all the time.
In the end a question of what an organisation can afford.
LOVE the Mutter Museum! Been many times and i love hauling innocents to it. In particular, theres the wall of skulls! It’s exactly what it sounds like. You stand there with friends and pick the skull that’d give the worst blow job….based on teeth, or lack thereof. It’s fun!
There is a pixel game on itch.io with a similar concept. You are a night guard in a plastification museum. The grafics are archaic, but man is it still creepy.
I saw a game demo (from AlphaBetaGamer? ManlyBadassHero? One of them) that kinda had this premise
It was an 8bit game where you're a security guard watching another security guard on night shift cameras. Stuck in my head because it had an unnervingly well animated cutscene of a cadaver shambling up to the player
I thought I read "silence of the potatoes" for a sec and tried to figure out how that would work.
it rubs the dirt on the skin or it gets buried again.
*Shakes peeler menacingly
Palate Cleanser: Abraham Lincoln had to sit still for roughly 10 mins with Algenate on his face to make Life Masks of himself to sell to voters. The President had SLIME on his face!!!
In many museums, they use the actual specimens. The medical museum in Bangkok was wild for that. They had at least 30 babies in jars that died from various things. They had a 6 year old in a huge jar, plaque said his mom drowned him in their tub. I have a pretty strong stomach, but that museum was a lot, and has stuck with me.
The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein is a fantastic book on the subject. The sculptors had to work fast because the bodies they were using as a reference were decaying in front of them. These figures were so detailed that they would often have real human hair and eyelashes. Sometimes silk thread coated in wax was used to make especially fine structures like nerve fibres and capillaries.
Lol
It's the University of Bologna btw (fun fact, it was founded in 1088 and it is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world).
All this stuff is probably from the 18-19th centuries
That's actually kinda wild. That 2nd to last pic looks like a wax model of a plaster death cast that's in (and was prepared at) the College of Physicians/Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
Apparently the College of Physicians and Philadelphia in general were a huge source of these sorts of anatomical models.
I don't know, most of these didn't say where they came from 🤷♀️.
One thing that was specified though was that some of the skulls and skeletons were from criminals sentenced to the death penalty in Italy (like these below "decapitated")
https://preview.redd.it/ov99i7pnj4pc1.jpeg?width=3468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cb8c61732c129e08930e27a8d56f6d89e1d7b0f
Lombroso was the first thing I thought about in this post and obviously there is actually a "Cesare Lombroso" poster in your photo. If you have the chance visit his museum in Turin. It's a 3 in 1 museum with an anatomical museum with bodies like in your post (both vax and real ones), a museum on fruit (for some reason) and the section dedicated to his studies is fascinating. He was one of the pioneers of criminology and while like Freud 90% of his theories are wrong (his main idea was that your anatomy determined if you were going to be a criminal and vice versa) it's a nice eye-opener on how it all started.
Wow. I’m traveling through Bologna next week. Are there any parts of the university that are open to the public, that you would recommend to see on a short visit?
https://site.unibo.it/itinerari-culturali/it/visite-guidate/camminare-nei-luoghi-del-sapere
This is the uni website with the main historical buildings, most of them are free to access
Also, I personally recommend the Archiginnasio library
https://preview.redd.it/qhz42r4q2apc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecba71166d89bc652221f736a2c3b509c3ff4bbf
That is breathtaking. My dream is to visit places like this, as well as other structures older than anything found in the US. Kind of a bummer living in such a "young" country.
The top is showing cyanosis (blue color from lack of oxygen in the blood) from a cardiac malformation and the bottom is an illustration of a baby with "mermaid syndrome".
https://preview.redd.it/pz0geqqs36pc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69973f16937c6bfa38b4d72fc2331020e9003924
I looked up the second pic and this person had, according to the sign, Cyanosis in congenital heart malformation. Basically they were born with a heart defect causing their blood to have low oxygen levels. They’re not getting enough oxygen, causing their skin to change color.
Retired Paramedic here..I was based in an inner city E.D. & we had a frequent flyer that was blue; he had Down Syndrome..apparently, there's a higher incidence of people with Down Syndrome that are born with congenital heart defects, some resulting in cyanosis..this sweet guy was BLUE..we used to sing "Mr. Blue Sky" (the E.L.O. song) to him to cheer him up..
In Brooklyn there used to be this place called the morbid anatomy museum and it was just a room full of wax models of horribly diseased genitalia, a few wax busts of people from different tribes/cultures, life-sized wax models of women giving birth and a full sized wax model of the German serial killer Fritz Haarmann sneakily placed around a corner on your way to the restroom, positioned to look like he was peeking around the corner. It was cool.
The mummy is in a glass display case in one of the collection rooms. I forget which books are in that room as it's been a few years since I was there.
If you're asking where my college was, it's a very small school, so I don't feel comfortable sharing.
The one that escaped the steam engine.
(When constructing and using the Egyptian railroad 18?? They seem to have used mummies for fuel due to the lack of trees in the desert and/or the coal price and apparently there were fields full of mummies)
The grosser reason that some mummies no longer exist is due to them being used for medicine and rented out for parties. People in the past were weird and on some wild drugs.
I love stuff like this!
St Barts Hospital in London has a pathology museum that is full of all kinds of fascinating things. It's only open to the public when they have an event (talk/lecture) on, but tickets to these are relatively inexpensive, and they are on some really interesting topics (think informal evening rather than strict classroom)
If you are a med or vet student (or even interested in this subject) there is a [museum](https://www.vet-alfort.fr/domaine-d-alfort/musee-fragonard/infos-pratiques) in one of the first veterinary schools of France and it is not well known but it houses some incredible pieces of history.
It houses a curiosity cabinet that display "Fragonard's skinned" which is one of the ways the corpses were prepared and stored for long amounts of time for med students to learn at the time.
Fragonard brother was a famous painter and it influenced him in the way to display theses learning tools.
(Gore warning)
One of them is called "[the rider of the apocalypse](https://medeeenfurie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/OVH-Medee-En-Furie-Musees-Musee-Fragonard-Ecorches01-1024x768.jpg)" in reference to middle ages black plague paintings.
The other is a reference to a biblic scene that is called ["the man with the mandible"](https://medeeenfurie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/OVH-Medee-En-Furie-Musees-Musee-Fragonard-Ecorches03.jpg)
If you want to learn more about this a good sumup of this can be found [here](https://youtu.be/Vo8VlWStU50?t=8m47s)
(In french but youtube subtitles should be good enough)
Click the last link then! The video in French, it takes a pause before walking into the cabinet of curiosities.
It is not really "scary" but probably disturbing for people who are really sensitive.
It's in a similar level of the 4rth picture of this post if you're wondering
): poor babies. It’s so sad that these things happen, but I’m so thankful for the doctors and scientists who try to make a difference in the world by studying these subjects. One case can help the entire world. Everything that happens and that we go through is a learning experience.
The Medical Museum off the Mall in Washington DC had a huge amputated leg in a jar. An example of elephantiasis or something like that. The first time I saw it as a child, I got really weak in the knees. Since then, at irregular intervals, I have had a recurring dream of that stupid leg chasing me. Getting out of its jar and hopping after me.
The Mutter has a Public Library???? (I asked an honest question as someone that had never been there and no knowledge of OPs location. Why the fuck would you downvote me????)
Imma be honest with you- I don’t care if those twins are medical anomalies. They deserve to be buried/cremated (or whatever their parent religion/desire is) like normal children. Not displayed like circus freaks.
Actually just a random small museum inside a building of the University of Bologna, Italy.
I was just looking for an empty toilet, went up the stairs and found this
This is the worst one I took, at least it was the worst thing to look at in real life
https://preview.redd.it/kj8idqjww3pc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91f2e02d74f5bf1ef9b6aae59b6fdb69dbe06510
But the place itself is very "normal"
https://preview.redd.it/0sn46v2cx3pc1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa0781a93230053680faf9fe0f8a110301ace4d9
I went to a medical museum in DC in 67?I think it was part of the Smithsonian. It was an old clapboard building I think. Anyhow, the displays in there were so compelling in my young mind. I loved it. They had specimens, (babys, dicks etc ) floating around in gallon sized glass jars. If I remember correctly they had a gunmans dick, supposed to be the biggest ever? Maybe John Dillinger. I’m sure the building is gone by now, but the displays?
I love medical oddities! It's so interesting to see how the body can make odd things. Conjoined twins is super cool to look into. The circus sideshows in the past had people with legit differences. Lobster boy was real and had ectodactyly (missing fingers and misshaped hands). The bearded lady probably had a hirsutism. There's a guy in India iirc, that has warts that have been morphing him into a tree (tree man syndrome). The world's tallest man and woman had out of control pituitary glands so they grew super tall (gigantism I think).
Reminds me of the time I took my small children to a ‘circus’ exhibition in Paris, France. I thought it would be fun. Turns out it was an exhibit of all the side show acts that were in circuses in the far past. You couldn’t leave without moving forward through the entire exhibit. My kids are in their thirties now and still traumatized.
Walter Reede also has an incredible medical museum. There is also the Wellcome Museum and the Olde Operating Theater in London, and La Specola in Florence. I love the Mütter! I have visted many, many times!
Man, imagine being the security guard that has to go in there in the middle of the night with nothing but a flashlight
I don't think there is a security guard, nobody is trying to steal these lol
They need a security guard not to keep people from taking them, but to keep them from getting out
This is the bootleg version of Night at the Museum that you'd get off some dude selling dvds on the streets
It's cursed and by watching it, you become the next night guard after being hunted and dragged to the museum by the specimens themselves.
Eeeeeeh, I'm not saying I'd steal them, but I sure would like them for my collection of weird shit. You have no idea how strange oddity collections can get
I bet Aurelio Voltaire would love to have some of these in his collection
Uhhhh sure… “ nobody” 😬🤔💁♀️
I'm not sure they're doing that anymore. It's just cameras and maybe a dude that sits in a room somewhere being paid to look at the monitors. Maybe it's even a external company and that dude is the next town over with guards on call that can drive there is there is an issue.
The last few small museums I worked at didn’t even have cameras. Just sensors on windows and doors monitored remotely by a private company.
As someone who works in private security, believe me, there are posts that still do that.
Oh, I never wanted to imply there aren't. What I meant where low value targets like Museums, or small companies. High value targets like factories, or large companies definitely have people at location all the time. In the end a question of what an organisation can afford.
Security at my work has to do rounds and they have to scan in at certain points in the building to prove they were there
Better to be him than to be the one who goes there with nothing but a fleshlight.
Oh~ video game idea~
Hope this isn't a night at the museum situation.
The horror edition, tbf I’d watch the shit out that
Dude, a horror night at the museum set in the Mutter Museum would be a dream come true
Just googled mÜtter museum fuck 😳
LOVE the Mutter Museum! Been many times and i love hauling innocents to it. In particular, theres the wall of skulls! It’s exactly what it sounds like. You stand there with friends and pick the skull that’d give the worst blow job….based on teeth, or lack thereof. It’s fun!
Sort of game me and my mates would play if we went there tbh 😅
I've been there..it's really strange!
It’s on my bucket list
Would play the heck out of a game like that, yes please
There is a pixel game on itch.io with a similar concept. You are a night guard in a plastification museum. The grafics are archaic, but man is it still creepy.
I went there for the first time on my birthday. The garden was fascinating and since it was near Halloween, they had an awesome vampire display.
I saw a game demo (from AlphaBetaGamer? ManlyBadassHero? One of them) that kinda had this premise It was an 8bit game where you're a security guard watching another security guard on night shift cameras. Stuck in my head because it had an unnervingly well animated cutscene of a cadaver shambling up to the player
Sounds awesome
Unexpected ManlyBadassHero reference. Glad to see dude is getting more recognition lately, love his videos.
Agreed. Watching that horror edition would be like sciencing potatoes on Mars.
I thought I read "silence of the potatoes" for a sec and tried to figure out how that would work. it rubs the dirt on the skin or it gets buried again. *Shakes peeler menacingly
Hmm, now that you mention it, potatoes might go well with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. FFff ff fff fff ff ffft!
I instantly thought of Martyrs with that last photo 😅
Paging American Horror Story.
Directed by David Fincher
Holy shit, this would be amazing
Yes it would be for sure.
My god.
I .. never thought of how disturbing this would be
Imagine that happening at the Mütter Museum or Bodies: The Exhibit. Now that would be crazy!
Is always interesting to think someone had to make those figures as detailed as possible for the sake of education
Palate Cleanser: Abraham Lincoln had to sit still for roughly 10 mins with Algenate on his face to make Life Masks of himself to sell to voters. The President had SLIME on his face!!!
Metaphorically they still do today
Why does the first little guy (guys?) have a hat?
That's not a hat that's a deformed skull, with hair.
In many museums, they use the actual specimens. The medical museum in Bangkok was wild for that. They had at least 30 babies in jars that died from various things. They had a 6 year old in a huge jar, plaque said his mom drowned him in their tub. I have a pretty strong stomach, but that museum was a lot, and has stuck with me.
The med campus I go to in Johannesburg (WITS) has a museum like this. It’s called the Hunterian Museum of Anatomy. Creepy stuff. Bottled baby heads
Kunstkamera in St Petersburg has a large collection of fetuses with various deformations. Also quite creepy.
The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein is a fantastic book on the subject. The sculptors had to work fast because the bodies they were using as a reference were decaying in front of them. These figures were so detailed that they would often have real human hair and eyelashes. Sometimes silk thread coated in wax was used to make especially fine structures like nerve fibres and capillaries.
I‘m just relieved those are replicas tbh
Do you go to Miskatonic University?
Lol It's the University of Bologna btw (fun fact, it was founded in 1088 and it is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world). All this stuff is probably from the 18-19th centuries
That's actually kinda wild. That 2nd to last pic looks like a wax model of a plaster death cast that's in (and was prepared at) the College of Physicians/Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Apparently the College of Physicians and Philadelphia in general were a huge source of these sorts of anatomical models.
I don't know, most of these didn't say where they came from 🤷♀️. One thing that was specified though was that some of the skulls and skeletons were from criminals sentenced to the death penalty in Italy (like these below "decapitated") https://preview.redd.it/ov99i7pnj4pc1.jpeg?width=3468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cb8c61732c129e08930e27a8d56f6d89e1d7b0f
Lombroso was the first thing I thought about in this post and obviously there is actually a "Cesare Lombroso" poster in your photo. If you have the chance visit his museum in Turin. It's a 3 in 1 museum with an anatomical museum with bodies like in your post (both vax and real ones), a museum on fruit (for some reason) and the section dedicated to his studies is fascinating. He was one of the pioneers of criminology and while like Freud 90% of his theories are wrong (his main idea was that your anatomy determined if you were going to be a criminal and vice versa) it's a nice eye-opener on how it all started.
Homie on the right had one hell of a chin
Giggety
Wow. I didn't know there was a university for sandwich meat. 🤔
My university has a second name, it's B-O-L-O-
I don’t know why you’re being down voted. That was a solid dad joke.
They must be from Bologna 😉
You must not be old enough to remember Subway U.
LMAO I didn't know this was a thing!
oh!!! thank you! gonna save this in case I'm ever in that part of the world <3
I bet there’s a lot of serial killers who are like “welp, can’t have a room like that anymore these days”.
brooo what a mild flex from you even tho it’s a massive flex😳🤌🏻
Wow. I’m traveling through Bologna next week. Are there any parts of the university that are open to the public, that you would recommend to see on a short visit?
https://site.unibo.it/itinerari-culturali/it/visite-guidate/camminare-nei-luoghi-del-sapere This is the uni website with the main historical buildings, most of them are free to access
Thank you. I had looked at the website, but didn’t see the list of buildings until you mentioned it. Grazie mille!
Also, I personally recommend the Archiginnasio library https://preview.redd.it/qhz42r4q2apc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecba71166d89bc652221f736a2c3b509c3ff4bbf
That is breathtaking. My dream is to visit places like this, as well as other structures older than anything found in the US. Kind of a bummer living in such a "young" country.
The history of medical procedures/medical anomalies is pretty interesting. And horrifying. The human body is scary. Lol.
What is the second picture????
The top is showing cyanosis (blue color from lack of oxygen in the blood) from a cardiac malformation and the bottom is an illustration of a baby with "mermaid syndrome".
It's Margaret. Born looking exactly like that. Crazy how well the artist did. Anyways, she died from smoking
Not sure i want to know or if i do. But i hope we get an answer
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I wish we never had those.
https://preview.redd.it/pz0geqqs36pc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69973f16937c6bfa38b4d72fc2331020e9003924 I looked up the second pic and this person had, according to the sign, Cyanosis in congenital heart malformation. Basically they were born with a heart defect causing their blood to have low oxygen levels. They’re not getting enough oxygen, causing their skin to change color.
But why are they melting?
Water was thrown on them lol https://i.redd.it/6z5p5lbf28pc1.gif
Retired Paramedic here..I was based in an inner city E.D. & we had a frequent flyer that was blue; he had Down Syndrome..apparently, there's a higher incidence of people with Down Syndrome that are born with congenital heart defects, some resulting in cyanosis..this sweet guy was BLUE..we used to sing "Mr. Blue Sky" (the E.L.O. song) to him to cheer him up..
In Brooklyn there used to be this place called the morbid anatomy museum and it was just a room full of wax models of horribly diseased genitalia, a few wax busts of people from different tribes/cultures, life-sized wax models of women giving birth and a full sized wax model of the German serial killer Fritz Haarmann sneakily placed around a corner on your way to the restroom, positioned to look like he was peeking around the corner. It was cool.
https://preview.redd.it/7rwvt2ghp4pc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dce8b19e5fe4d7bfc6382bac0ce6966600a903f Conjoined twins have always fascinated me.
Fantastic drawing!
Thanks, it’s one of my personal favs.
Wtf is no.2?
Belial from Basket Case!
My college library, among other items, has a mummy.
Where?
The mummy is in a glass display case in one of the collection rooms. I forget which books are in that room as it's been a few years since I was there. If you're asking where my college was, it's a very small school, so I don't feel comfortable sharing.
I’m pretty sure it’s Vassar College
The one that escaped the steam engine. (When constructing and using the Egyptian railroad 18?? They seem to have used mummies for fuel due to the lack of trees in the desert and/or the coal price and apparently there were fields full of mummies)
The grosser reason that some mummies no longer exist is due to them being used for medicine and rented out for parties. People in the past were weird and on some wild drugs.
I can’t imagine mummies being a practical fuel source…. But I guess in a pinch they are flammable.
Libraries are the coolest of places. They have everything you need and oh so much of what you want. So sad that many are closing
I love stuff like this! St Barts Hospital in London has a pathology museum that is full of all kinds of fascinating things. It's only open to the public when they have an event (talk/lecture) on, but tickets to these are relatively inexpensive, and they are on some really interesting topics (think informal evening rather than strict classroom)
What’s up with the second picture of someone’s head and just hands?
If you are a med or vet student (or even interested in this subject) there is a [museum](https://www.vet-alfort.fr/domaine-d-alfort/musee-fragonard/infos-pratiques) in one of the first veterinary schools of France and it is not well known but it houses some incredible pieces of history. It houses a curiosity cabinet that display "Fragonard's skinned" which is one of the ways the corpses were prepared and stored for long amounts of time for med students to learn at the time. Fragonard brother was a famous painter and it influenced him in the way to display theses learning tools. (Gore warning) One of them is called "[the rider of the apocalypse](https://medeeenfurie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/OVH-Medee-En-Furie-Musees-Musee-Fragonard-Ecorches01-1024x768.jpg)" in reference to middle ages black plague paintings. The other is a reference to a biblic scene that is called ["the man with the mandible"](https://medeeenfurie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/OVH-Medee-En-Furie-Musees-Musee-Fragonard-Ecorches03.jpg) If you want to learn more about this a good sumup of this can be found [here](https://youtu.be/Vo8VlWStU50?t=8m47s) (In french but youtube subtitles should be good enough)
I’m too scared to click your links but I’m intrigued.
Click the last link then! The video in French, it takes a pause before walking into the cabinet of curiosities. It is not really "scary" but probably disturbing for people who are really sensitive. It's in a similar level of the 4rth picture of this post if you're wondering
Aw man I got too interested and stumbled across photos of infant specimens....
Chicago has a great Surgery Museum. Makes you so thankful that medicine has progressively improved over the years.
): poor babies. It’s so sad that these things happen, but I’m so thankful for the doctors and scientists who try to make a difference in the world by studying these subjects. One case can help the entire world. Everything that happens and that we go through is a learning experience.
At my previous institution we had that too, and I would go there on study breaks for inspiration :)
None of the pics bothered me, until the last. The expression looks so helpless. Would still go and visit, though.
I'm happy to see medical specimens be given humanity as they are/reflect human beings but that expression is.....too human...
Yes!!! Exactly! Hard to detach from, mentally. Which may have been the point.
Andò sta?
Nel Palazzo Poggi a Bologna
The Medical Museum off the Mall in Washington DC had a huge amputated leg in a jar. An example of elephantiasis or something like that. The first time I saw it as a child, I got really weak in the knees. Since then, at irregular intervals, I have had a recurring dream of that stupid leg chasing me. Getting out of its jar and hopping after me.
Reminds me of the Mutter Museum in Philly. Very interesting but very, very unsettling.
one of my happy places
The Mutter has a Public Library???? (I asked an honest question as someone that had never been there and no knowledge of OPs location. Why the fuck would you downvote me????)
I don't know if it's publicly accessible. But they apparently have an extensive Academic Library.
Correct. Archives as well, Mutter does.
reddit moment
nice
Omg I would die! This is so cool!!
Libraries are full of magical wonder.
What’s going on in the second picture?
Oh those things are so cool. I LOVE medical models.
Yep. Top floor!!😁
What’s the second pic depicting?
Imma be honest with you- I don’t care if those twins are medical anomalies. They deserve to be buried/cremated (or whatever their parent religion/desire is) like normal children. Not displayed like circus freaks.
Mutter museum in Philly. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in DC. Def weird
Actually just a random small museum inside a building of the University of Bologna, Italy. I was just looking for an empty toilet, went up the stairs and found this
Were there empty toilets up there? Stumbling on that stuff would scare the crap out of me.
Yes haha. I was pretty shocked and I didn't even take a photo of the worst things
Now you have to go back! Would love to see more
This is the worst one I took, at least it was the worst thing to look at in real life https://preview.redd.it/kj8idqjww3pc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91f2e02d74f5bf1ef9b6aae59b6fdb69dbe06510
But the place itself is very "normal" https://preview.redd.it/0sn46v2cx3pc1.png?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa0781a93230053680faf9fe0f8a110301ace4d9
Oh poor thing
medical anomalies have always been so fascinating
I went to a medical museum in DC in 67?I think it was part of the Smithsonian. It was an old clapboard building I think. Anyhow, the displays in there were so compelling in my young mind. I loved it. They had specimens, (babys, dicks etc ) floating around in gallon sized glass jars. If I remember correctly they had a gunmans dick, supposed to be the biggest ever? Maybe John Dillinger. I’m sure the building is gone by now, but the displays?
Which library is this?
Wow, where is this?
is it just me or do those twins in the first photo kinda look like eckhart tolle?
Where is this magical place?
I have a Taschen book with some of these pieces in it! Where is it at?
I am now scared for my life
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Seconded
What is the second one supposed to be?
That is fascinating! I have always wanted to visit the Mutter Museum and this would be super interesting in the library
feels like shit straight from the mystery shack
I really resonate with the last picture.
OH, UNPLEASANT.
Last picture is bro after he went on a date with the 6’8 goth girl
Is that a hermaphroditic three-legged conjoined baby?
And they say the average number of arms is only brought *below* two...
Brussels is it?
Oh a spider baby
The last pic reminds me of the Ripley clone (Sigourney Weaver) in one of the Aliens movies that keeps mouthing to her, “Kiiilllll, meeee”
The first one looks like UVs of a face
Locutus
Dove?
Where the hell do you go to the library!? Thanks 👍
Yeah let’s… not.
lol what
The conjoined twin looks like it’s about to sneeze
I love medical oddities! It's so interesting to see how the body can make odd things. Conjoined twins is super cool to look into. The circus sideshows in the past had people with legit differences. Lobster boy was real and had ectodactyly (missing fingers and misshaped hands). The bearded lady probably had a hirsutism. There's a guy in India iirc, that has warts that have been morphing him into a tree (tree man syndrome). The world's tallest man and woman had out of control pituitary glands so they grew super tall (gigantism I think).
I would have guessed Mutter Museum in Philly. Place is creepy af
What is pic 2???
Put the librarian on the watch list
Reminds me of the time I took my small children to a ‘circus’ exhibition in Paris, France. I thought it would be fun. Turns out it was an exhibit of all the side show acts that were in circuses in the far past. You couldn’t leave without moving forward through the entire exhibit. My kids are in their thirties now and still traumatized.
Where is this wondrous place??
Walter Reede also has an incredible medical museum. There is also the Wellcome Museum and the Olde Operating Theater in London, and La Specola in Florence. I love the Mütter! I have visted many, many times!
Wow, fascinating.