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Museum of Medicine (Museum of the ULB)
Address:
Campus Erasme, Route de Lennik 808
1070 Anderlecht
Phone: +32 / (0)2 / 555.34.31
Fax: +32 / (0)2 / 555.34.71
E-mail: museemed@erasme.ulb.ac.be
Website: http://www.medicmuseum.be
Open: daily from 1pm to 4 pm
Closed: Saturday and Sunday
Price: Adults: 3 €; seniors: 2 €; students: 1 €; children <12 years and members of the ULB: free admission.
Visits: all days, weekends included, upon reservation at +32 / (0)2 / 555.34.31 (60 EUR)
Services: library (by appointment) - slide library (by appointment)
Facilities: cafeteria (in the vicinity) - expo-snack (by appointment: caterer) - accessible to disabled persons - parking facilities (behind the museum) - parking facilities buses (Erasmus metrostation)
Accessibility: metro: line 5 (Erasmus); bus: 98 141 142 190
Collection: History of medicine and anatomical wax.
Description: This museum, created in 1995, establishes a link between art and medicine. It presents several historical and artistic testimonies in connection with the evolution of medical concepts: magic concept, mythological, religious and then rational, based upon observation, testing and the development of technology, from Earliest Antiquity until today. The museum also houses a collection of anatomical wax of the type "Spitzner", as well as rooms devoted to paleomedicine: pre-Columbian medicine, non-European collections devoted to the Arabic, African, Asian worlds, etc.
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