Museum of Electropathology

The Museum of Electropathology, located in the Austrian capital, Vienna, was opened in 1936 in the building of an old hospital by the Viennese doctor Stefan Jellinek, who for 40 years studied the effects of electricity on people and animals. The museum was closed several times, and since 2005, with the assistance of one of the major Austrian insurance companies, it has been reopened on the basis of the Vienna Museum of Pathology.

The museum’s collection is based on exhibits collected by Jellinek since 1898. In the exhibition windows you can see 113 posters about the impact of current on humans, collected in 20 countries, engravings, paintings, faulty electrical appliances, many photos of lightning and objects that were damaged by it. Of particular interest is the exhibition, exhibits of which are charred vegetation, glazed sand, charred or molten metal objects from the pockets of victims of electrical lesions. Among the most feared museums in the world, the Vienna Museum of Electropathology ranks sixth.