Museum
Surgeons' Hall Museum
Pathology and anatomy collection tracing surgery's history, including relics of Edinburgh's body-snatching era.
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About this audio guide
This guide walks Surgeons' Hall Museum through the winter of eighteen twenty-eight, when a black market in stolen corpses fed Edinburgh's crowded medical schools and two men, William Burke and William Hare, found a way to skip the grave-robbing altogether. It follows their killings, the respected anatomist who received the bodies, and the crowd of twenty-five thousand that gathered on the Lawnmarket the morning of Burke's execution. It ends by pointing you to one small object from that dissecting room, still on display in the case ahead.
This audio guide was created using AI.