After a lengthy renovation, the Musée Fragonard in Paris has reopened its doors. I’ve never been there but it’s definitely on my must-see list next time I’m in Paris:

From Wikipedia: The Musée Fragonard d’Alfort, part of the École Nationale Vétérinaire, is a museum of anatomical oddities and dissections from the 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to animal skeletons and dissections, such as a piglet displayed in cross-section, the museum contains a substantial collection of monstrosities including Siamese twin lambs, a two-headed calf, a 10-legged sheep, and a colt with one huge eye.

The museum’s most astonishing items are the famous “écorchés” (flayed figures) prepared by Honoré Fragonard, the school’s first professor of anatomy, later dismissed as a madman. His specialty was the preparation and preservation of skinned cadavers, of which he prepared some 700 examples. Only 21 remain; all are on display in the museum’s final room. These exhibits include: The Horseman of the Apocalypse (a man on horse, surrounded by a crowd of small human foetuses riding sheep), human foetuses dancing a jig, a goat’s dissected trunk and head, and a human head – blood vessels injected with colored wax; blue for the veins, red for the arteries.

View slideshow | Museum website (English)