The Musée Dupuytren was a museum of wax anatomical items and specimens illustrating diseases and malformations. It was located at the

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building, 15, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Les Cordeliers,

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, and is part of the

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Faculty of Medicine. In 2016 the museum was closed and moved to the

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, joining 8 scientific collections of UPMC. The collections will be open to students and researchers, and will be open to the public for events.

History

The museum was established in 1835 by

Mathieu Orfila Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (Catalan: ''Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger'') (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Role in forensic toxicology If th ...

as the Museum of Pathological Anatomy of the Medicine Faculty of the

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, with the request of Baron

Guillaume Dupuytren Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (; 5 October 1777 – 8 February 1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonaparte's hemorrhoids, he is best known today for his description of Dupuytren's ...

, anatomist and celebrated professor of surgery. The museum was installed in the old refectory of the

, gathering collections from throughout the faculty. Its first catalog was compiled between 1836 and 1842, and listed about a thousand specimens. By the late 1870s the museum contained over six thousand pieces. The museum began a slow decline starting in the late 19th century, despite continued acquisition of new collections, and its upkeep became problematic. In 1937

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ordered the museum shut, with many items subsequently lost or destroyed. However, in 1967 Jacques Delarue (1901–1971) brought the museum back to life with a general refurbishment. Today it still retains an extensive collection including specimens dating from the 17th century, as well as

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s, books, and photographs. Among many other notable items, the museum contains

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s of

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patients, preserved in alcohol by the celebrated anatomist Paul Pierre Broca, and used in his research in the localization of brain functions.

References

Musée Dupuytren

Brain Archiving, International Brain Research Organization
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History

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