Dermatological Museum

In the list of unusual museums in Paris, there is a dermatological museum, which will be of interest primarily to those tourists whose profession is related to medicine. However, among its visitors enough and those who like to tickle their nerves. This museum presents a unique collection of various skin diseases.

The Paris Museum of Skin Pathology is the world’s first such museum. It was discovered in 1867 by Alphonse Devergi, a famous French dermatologist who described more than one chronic disease. The exposition of the museum presents models of various skin diseases, which throughout the history of mankind faced physicians around the world.

The collection of the museum includes more than one and a half thousand dummy or graphic images of skin diseases, including the rarest and most exotic. The most colorful part of the exhibition is dedicated to syphilis, which in the past was one of the most terrible diseases.