Museum Macabre - Bangkok

Faline · #1 ● 02-15-2012, 02:57 PM

Housed in the oldest hospital in Bangkok, the Siriraj Medical Museum, is a macabre museum with displays of real life medical anomalies, such as a Siamese twin babies sharing a heart, a cyclops infant and a mermaid baby born with feet joined together. It’s not your typical sightseeing museum. Instead, you’ll find rare and freakish medical cases preserved in large jars of formaldehyde for scientific study. This is because this stranger-than-fiction medical facility was originally constructed with the purpose of training its hospital doctors and nurses. Today, it’s open to the public and offers a gripping peek into Thai medical history.

There’s a room decorated with rows of unborn fetuses and their unusual aberrations. The showcase runs a bit on the melancholic side, but it’s truly one of the most fascinating and eclectic collections you’ll find. But from there on, rooms continue to get progressively more gruesome.

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Siamese twins babies sharing one set of internal organs:

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Twin fetuses:

Preserved head with bullet wound:
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Skulls:

Charred bodies of murderers:

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Sliced open babies:
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Corpse of serial killer, Si Quay:
The museum’s star exhibit is the preserved body of Thailand’s most notorious serial killer, Si Quey, a Chinese immigrant who killed and ate a number of children in the 1940s and ’50s.

Skin coated in paraffin and orifices plugged with wax, his naked body is housed in a glass box for your viewing pleasure, with a few unnamed peers (labelled simply as “murderers” and “rapists”) similarly accommodated nearby.