Anatomical Museum of the Medical School of the NKUA

About the museum

The Anatomical Museum belongs to the Anatomy Laboratory of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is housed in the Anatomy Building in Goudi. It operates as an educational space presenting anatomical science and the history of medicine.

The collection includes dry bones, normal and pathological, skulls, sections of the brain and spinal cord, models of wax, wood and plastic, as well as a teratological collection with malformed embryos. The museum also holds the Valsamakis collection of wooden bone models, Auzoux models and old surgical instruments and microscopes.

In a separate section the collection of Georgios Papanikolaou is kept. The museum’s anatomical preparations exceed 800, and around 60 of them show congenital anomalies.

Highlights

• Anatomical preparations, skulls and brain sections
• Wooden bone models from the Valsamakis collection
• Auzoux models
• Collection of Georgios Papanikolaou
• Old surgical instruments and microscopes

Permanent exhibition

• Μόνιμη συλλογή ανατομικών παρασκευασμάτων και μοντέλων – Anatomical preparations, models of wax, wood and plastic, a teratological collection and old medical instruments, as well as the collection of Georgios Papanikolaou.

Founded

1877

Operated by

Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ιατρική Σχολή

Director

Θεόδωρος Τρούπης

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