Medicinsk Museion
Former surgical academy auditorium turned museum of anatomical specimens, instruments and preserved human remains.
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This guide to Medicinsk Museion in Copenhagen opens with a wall of glass jars holding preserved human foetuses, kept for over a century by doctors who believed the dead had lessons for the living. The building began in 1787 as the Royal Academy of Surgery, its domed auditorium modeled on Rome's Pantheon and its tiered wooden benches built for students watching bodies opened on a bare table below. Stand at that dissection table now and look up at the rows of seats that once faced it.
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