Anatomisches Museum / Medizinische Universität Innsbruck

About this audio guide

This guide to the Anatomisches Museum in Innsbruck follows Ferdinand Hochstetter, the young professor who ran the institute from eighteen ninety-six to nineteen-oh-eight, and the puzzle he faced trying to teach students how a human body actually forms. It touches on the slow, hands-on craft of nineteenth-century anatomical preparation, at a time when standard preserving methods for embryonic tissue kept failing him. Look for the specimens that still stand in the cases today.