Dupuytren Museum

Dupuytren Museum is located in the VI arrondissement of Paris, France. This is a museum of pathological anatomy, named after the French professor of medicine Guillaume Dupuytren. The museum was founded in 1835 by Mathieu Orfil, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris, chemist and physician, founder of forensic toxicology.

The museum has about 6,000 exhibits, a large number of skeletons and flasks with alcoholized embryos. Certain exhibits are of particular value, as they clearly demonstrate very rare diseases. For example, the museum holds the skeleton of a Parisian woman who died of a very rare disease of osteomalacia, in which bone tissue softens.

Most of the collection is devoted to violations of fetal development, and intrauterine defects. On the shelves you can see alcoholized Siamese twins, infants of hydrocephalus, and many other terrible exposures.

Currently, the museum is not very popular and is experiencing financial difficulties.