The Museum of Human Disease – A Grisly Find
April 14, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Medical History
Most people head to Sydney, Australia for the sun, the food, and the opera house. Now you can also take in a visit to the Museum of Human Diseases, a Pandora’s box of plague, pestilence and disease in graphic detail.
Used for years as a resource for medical students, this museum at the University of New South Wales has more than 2,000 cadaver parts on display.
It’s not for the weak of stomach. There’s a blackened smoker’s lung on one side and a nectrotic ulcer the size of a cricket ball n the other. The two disembodied white thumbs, macabrely sit in a ’thumbs up’ gesture against a dark background (possibly a little med school humor). There’s a gangrenous foot, a nodular goitre, and an egg-shaped breast cancer.
It might sound pretty grisly but sights like this can be a powerful educational tool, giving people a first hand look at how lifestyle choices can affect the body.
The museum is located on the ground floor of the Samuels Building in the Upper Sydney Campus area
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I was not aware of a museum with cadaver parts on display. Maybe one day I’ll see it.