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The Luigi Cattaneo Anatomical Wax Museum
In this building of Bologna University are three specific areas of study. They include: the Institute of General Human Anatomy, the Department of Biochemistry and the Institute of Pharmacology.
Next to the entrance is one of the university’s most interesting historical collections. On display in this corridor is the Luigi Calori collection of 2,000 human skulls, organised and catalogued according to specific themes. For example, there are skulls belonging to Suicide victims, Handicapped, African and even the Ancient Romans.
Luigi Calori graduated in 1829 and studied anatomy under the guidance of Antonio Alessandrini and Francesco Mondini. He was nominated head of the Human Anatomy department of Bologna University in 1831. As a result of his outstanding achievements he set new standards in the fields of anatomy, teratology, comparative anatomy and anthropology. Furthermore, there is now a huge collection of didactics which modern students currently use today.
On the first floor here is The Luigi Cattaneo Anatomical Wax Museum. It contains a collection of 19th century anatomical wax models by Ercole Lelli, Giovanni Manzolini, Anna Morandi, the Florentine modeller Clemente Susini and by other Bolognese wax modellers, the most important of whom are Giuseppe Astorri and Cesare Bettini. Many of these models however were restored under Francesco Sabattini.
In this room also are giant bones from Eygpt, deformed heads and bodies, the consequences of various diseases on the skin and quite a few examples of Siamese twins. In the next room are models illustrating the results of diseases, infections and deformations on organs.
This museum was renovated with the fusion of 2 collections from the institute of anatomy and pathological anatomy from 1804. It was opened in the 1970s by Luigi Cattaneo (1925-1992), professor of Anatomy and curator of Science and Art. Incidentally, this room was originally used for the Anatomy of Science.
The historic moment of the Bolognese school was when the teacher of Anatomy began to carry out research into the variations, malformations, teratology and alterations in shape caused by the various illnesses, as well as creating models in wax relative to the normal morphology.
Dried specimens of the case under examination are displayed alongside these wax specimens, extremely useful as teaching aids, together with prints of the original drawings, thus illustrating the modus operandi of the anatomists of the period.
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