Museum of the Department of Normal Anatomy of Kazan State Medical University

The Museum of the Department of Normal Anatomy of KSMU is located in the only operating Anatomical Theater in the world. The department is one of the first six departments of the Imperial Kazan University (1804). From that moment, various collections began to appear at the department: teratological - freaks (1806), preparations of the Dutch anatomist Ruish (1837), preparations of the French company Tramond, Paris (XIX century), mummies (XIX century), a unique craniological collection (XIX century), a collection of skeletons (XIX century), etc.

The museum at the department was opened in 1837. Currently, its exposition includes 6 sections: “About the man in details”. A Look Through the Ages", "The Life of the Body After Death", "How I Am Made", "From Conception to Birth", "How I Am Different from Animals", "Is Darwin Right?", "Man of the XXI Century". It was completely updated in 2007 thanks to the grant support of the Dmitry Zimin Dynasty Foundation.

The museum presents preparations made by various methods of embalming - from the mummy of the XVI century. to the modern method of polymer embalming, as well as a unique anthropological collection of skulls and skeletons.

The museum has unique samples of books on medicine of the early XIX century, including Atlases on Anatomy (France, Russia), textbooks on medicine (Germany, France). In addition, the museum contains scientific works of famous Russian medical scientists, including the works of surgeon A.V. Vishnevsky, N.V. Ternovsky, N.S. Sysak, who wrote a description of the anthropological collection of the museum, V.N. Tonkov, founder of the educational museum in the building of the Anatomical Theater, etc.