Anatomical Collection

The Anatomical Collection is primarily used for medical and dental education. In addition to historical apparatuses, such as the microscope from the Berlin company Bénèche & Wasserlein (1850), it contains a number of anatomical and embryological models and preparations. Wax models reconstructed from microscopic sections are used to illustrate the development of the individual organs in the embryo. Highlights of the collection are the wax model of a primed body from the famous Parisian workshop Tramond (c. 1888), the historical skull collection based on Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), and the so-called "Stone Child of Leinzell," a fossilized fetus found in 1720 during the dissection of a 91-year-old woman (currently on loan to the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart).

To the collection in the eMuseum (selection)