Premium
Origin and Development of Medical Museum in Padua
Author(s) -
Zanatta Alberto,
Zampieri Fabio
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/cura.12273
Subject(s) - museology , cabinet (room) , pathological anatomy , art , medicine , visual arts , pathology
The scientific museology began in Padua with the Museum of Natural Philosophy of Vallisneri. The purpose of this museum was to educate students and demonstrate what Vallisneri called “philosophical curiosity.” The Padua medical museology started with the anatomical museum of Morgagni in 1756. Morgagni planned the creation of a museum of anatomical and pathological specimens. The cabinets of obstetrics made by Calza in the 1760s was composed by a series of anatomic models in wax and clay, used for Calza's practical teaching to the pupils. These models represented the physiology and the pathology of the pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. There are reports of a “pathological cabinet” in Padua from the early years of the XIX century: Caldani, Fanzago and Cortese collected pathological specimens in different part of the university. However, the final passage from Cabinet collection to pathological Museum took place in the early 1870s, thanks to Lodovico Brunetti.