Fragonard d Alfort Museum
About Fragonard d Alfort Museum
The Fragonard d'Alfort Museum, regularly surely the Fragonard Museum , is a museum of anatomical oddities placed within the National Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort , 7 road General de Gaulle, in Maisons-Alfort , a suburb of Paris. It is open several days consistent with week inside the cooler months; admission fee is charged. The National Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort is one of the world's oldest veterinary colleges , and the museum, created in 1766 with the college, is among France's oldest. The museum attracted great worldwide attention since the college's founding and became a essential component of the faculty's identity within the eighteenth century. It opened to the general public in 1991, and these days consists of a massive series of anatomical oddities and dissections, most of which date from the 19th and early twentieth centuries.
In addition to animal skeletons and dissections, the museum consists of a huge collection of monstrosities.Teratology consisting of Siamese dual lambs, a -headed calf, a ten-legged sheep, and a massive eye. The museum's most superb gadgets are the famous "flayed figures" prepared via Honore Fragonard , the school's first professor of anatomy, appointed in 1766 and disregarded from college as madman. His forte turned into the instruction and maintenance of skinned cadavers, of which he prepared some seven-hundred examples. Only 21 remain; all are on show within the museum's final room. These well-knownshows encompass.
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