Estonian Health Museum

This guide to the Estonian Health Museum in Tallinn centers on a woman who has never taken a breath, a transparent figure cast in cellon, a plastic invented in Dresden in the late 1920s by model maker Franz Tschackert to show ordinary people the inside of a human body. It follows her unveiling at the 1937 Paris World's Fair, where the crowds grew so large that police had to direct traffic outside her pavilion. The guide then turns to Tallinn's own glass woman, arriving here the very year this museum broke from Soviet control, and to a much older collection of wax models and copper instruments that didn't survive that history at all.