{"id":15316,"date":"2022-05-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italics.art\/?post_type=tip&p=15316"},"modified":"2024-01-02T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:17:55","slug":"a-trip-through-the-museology-in-turin","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/italics.art\/en\/tip\/a-trip-through-the-museology-in-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip through the Museology in Turin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are three unusual science museums in Turin, housed in 19th-century buildings not far from one another, filled with finds and artefacts displayed in old wooden vitrines and together offering visitors a trip through the history of museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum of Human Anatomy<\/a> is packed with collections of medical material, including foetus skeletons in glass jars, period instruments and fine wax models of organs and bodies used for teaching purposes in the 18th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cesare Lombroso, a well-known anthropologist and criminologist, spent the latter part of his life as a medical examiner at the Turin jail, where he developed his controversial and anachronistic anthropological theories about criminals, even dissecting the cadavers of the inmates. In 1876, he founded the Museum of Criminal Anthropology<\/a>, filling it with skulls and skeletons, physical evidence and the work of bandits and convicts, an Art Brut corner of the city. For years, the \u201cNo Lombroso\u201d committee, supported by numerous associations and town councils, fought for the closure of this museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both museums now belong to the University of Turin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n