Collezione delle Cere Anatomiche Luigi Cattaneo

About this audio guide

This guide to the wax anatomy collection at the University of Bologna follows the professor whose name is on the door, even though he never sculpted a single figure inside it. You will hear about the eighteenth century workshop that first modeled human anatomy in wax, and pathologist Cesare Taruffi's collection of disease and malformation. It also traces what happened to the collection during the second world war, and who eventually put it back together. Best heard while looking at the faces in the cases around you.