History Exhibition
👂"pretty much unknown, even to locals" (The Earful Tower)
⚠️Not for the faint of heart or weak stomach
📧Email <24 hrs ahead, pay at hospital office
Step inside a working hospital to confront 4,800 hyper-realistic wax casts of 19th-century skin diseases. Opened alongside the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 World's Fair, this unsettling collection of leprosy, syphilis, and lupus models offers a sobering glimpse into medical history.
medical history museum
dermatology collection
by appointment only
19th-century medicine
History Exhibition👂"pretty much unknown, even to locals" (The Earful Tower)
⚠️Not for the faint of heart or weak stomach
📧Email <24 hrs ahead, pay at hospital office
Step inside a working hospital to confront 4,800 hyper-realistic wax casts of 19th-century skin diseases. Opened alongside the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 World's Fair, this unsettling collection of leprosy, syphilis, and lupus models offers a sobering glimpse into medical history.
medical history museum
dermatology collection
by appointment only
19th-century medicine