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Museo di Cere Anatomiche
Under the Clothes at Madame Tussaud's
The University of Bologna's Wax Anatomy Museum really deserves a visit. Some of 18th- and 19th-century Italy’s most talented artists worked in wax, making anatomical models to help in the teaching of medicine; their productions have never been equalled. Some of the most glamorous are in the Museo di Palazzo Poggi, but some of the more bizarre and technical figures are here.
There's also a fine collection of 2000 skulls, models of fetal deformities and other pathologies, the obsession of one of the anatomy professors, Cesare Taruffi (1821-1902).
Practical Info 
Via Irnerio 48
Hours Sept-May Tue-Fri 9am-1pm. June & July Tue-Fri 10am-1pm, closed Aug.
Adm Free; book a time online
+39 051 2091556
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by Museo delle Cere Anatomiche