3.The Lombroso Museum Of Criminal Anthropology
Cesare Lombroso was a 19th-century Italian military doctor who believed that criminal behavior had something to do with a deformity in the skull of the criminal. He started collecting and studying skulls comparing the skulls of criminals hanged at the gallows and that of madmen and other unique psychiatric cases. His collection grew to include the skulls of soldiers and brains of patients that died in asylums. All these are part of his creepy museum, which has now been taken over by the International Museum Of Man and increased the collection in the museum. It is nearly as scary as the catacombs except for the gallows of Turin, which was decommissioned in 1865, which make part of his collection. A day in this museum will bring you face to face with the death of each criminal, psychiatric patient or soldier.
4.The Museum Of Animal Anatomy
One of the oldest veterinary schools in Paris is the Ecole National Vernier d’Alfort dating back to the 1700s. However, the man that made the museum’s current museum famous was its director Honoree Fragonard who joined in 1776 and had a thing for anatomy more than veterinary medicine. He had a special method of skinning animals that would leave the body with veins, arteries, and tendons visible. His collections include a lion that was killed just in the midst of a roar then flayed into a ghostly looking display.
He also flayed a horse amid a gallop and attached a waxed skeleton of its rider showing the image of a man skinned with veins and arteries showing. The show gets more ghostly as you move through the small museum, which displays graphic images of dead animals, deformed animal, and human fetuses and internal organs of animals all preserved in chemicals. It is not exactly the most animal-lover friendly sight, but the school makes up for it by treating animals.