The Museum of the Flayed Anatomy... not even afraid!

For an unusual visit, this is one of them, since this museum is unique in the world!

But... sensitive souls refrain!

It brings together the work of Dr. Louis Auzoux, who has produced thousands of human, animal and even floral skinned products.

 

The native village

Doctor Louis Auzoux was born in Saint Aubin d'Ecrosville, a small rural village of about 700 inhabitants. He did not go very far to work, since, in 1828, he had his factory built on the church square and the town hall, on land adjoining the family house. It still exists, but it is now assigned to something else.

A monument celebrating him was erected in the middle of the same square.

 

Le Neubourg

A few kilometers from Doctor Louis Auzoux's native village, it is a village of about 4000 inhabitants. And it is there that this quite unusual, quite extraordinary, and also very interesting museum, the Museum of the Anatomy Flayed, was set up.

It was the penultimate owner of the Auzoux establishments, Bernard Barral, who had the idea, accepted in 1989 by the General Council of L'Eure and the municipality. It was finally inaugurated in 1995.

Bernard Barral later transferred the establishments to new owners, but they stopped operating in 2003. On this occasion, they offered the museum a very large number of new pieces of flora and fauna, which led to an extension of the museum in 2005, doubling its surface area.

The museum

It presents a unique heritage in the world.

Dr. Auzoux's skinned patients have trained, and still train, generations of doctors around the world through thousands of models.

Proof of this is the story told by a Japanese professor in 2004 who came to learn about the manufacturing techniques used, and who indicated that one of these models had been found a few hundred metres from the drop point of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and was now in a local museum.

Dr. Auzoux had indeed developed manufacturing techniques based on cardboard moulded in lead-based moulds, which made it possible to repeat the piece over and over again. Once out of its mold, it was affixed a finishing paper, on which the vessels, nerves, etc. were glued.

The results are fascinating in terms of precision, and all the more so as the skinned are dismantled piece by piece.

After the first understandable step back, the visit is just as fascinating!

 

Museum of the anatomy skinned anatomy
54, Avenue de la Libération
27110 Le Neubourg
Tél. : 02 32 35 93 95

contact@musee-anatomie.fr


www.musee-anatomie.fr

 

 

 

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

 

 


To go further....

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Belles plantes ! : Modèles en papier mâché du Dr Auzoux

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Honoré Fragonard et ses écorchés : Un anatomiste au Siècle des lumières

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Honoré Fragonard (1732-1799), le cousin du célèbre peintre, fut directeur et professeur d’anatomie de L’École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, la première en Europe à se consacrer à la médecine des animaux. Au sein de cette institution fondée en 1766, Fragonard créa un « cabinet » où étaient exposés des modèles anatomiques.
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