--Siriraj Medical Museum, (THAILAND), a Museum of the horror--

A macabre and sinister museum, “the Anatomical museum of Congdon”, which was founded by the forensic medicine department of the Siriraj Hospital. It is located concretely in the heart of Bangkok, to borders of the river Chao Phraya and closely together of the most beautiful Thailander temples.

In this horrifying museum they are possible to be observed mummies of executed assassins, fetuses with malformations, organs conserved in formol and some that another atrocity more.

This museum is visited by students and tourist rather often, with the only intention to observe the horror in its purer degree.

At first one had mounted for the instruction of the medical young people, divided in six parts dedicated to pathologies: forense medicine, anatomy, history of Thailander science, parasitology and prehistory, each one with its own objects.

One of the most famous attractions and than monopolizes a greater number of visits, is the mummified corpse in wax of Si-Oui, a frightful chinese psicopat, which assassinated small children later to devour its bodies. This “Hannibal Lecter” fed itself on people “because she loved eating organs of humans, not because it was hungry”, illustrates one of explanatory texts.

Some of the venerated objects more are the medical instruments with which the autopsy to the monarch Ananda Mahidol or Rama VIII was made, brother of present king Rama XIX, that died in 1946 because of a firing in circumstances still not known.

Also photographies and objects of homicides, fatal accidents can be observed, suicides and catastrophes. There are sections that show collections of skulls, dissected skeletons, organs and bones, all of them pertaining ones to tragic facts.

Are to the covered with blood articles of the victims and the arms with which they were attacked.

Like a section in which the stained dress of blood of one of the victims of a rapist is exhibited, call “Nualchawee”, as well as the knife with which was assassinated and its newspaper.

There is another called section “Bodies, The Exhibition”, which shows real human bodies.

It exists a section dedicated to the “elephantiasis”, an enlargement of diverse parts of the body. An example in the famous film of David Lynch, titled can be seen “The Elephant Man”.

This Anatomical Museum, includes in honor of doctor Edgar Davidson Congdon, a sample of the dissection to complete body of the nervous system, the arterial one and of muscles, between medical utensils and bookcases filled with objects of laboratory and bottles that remember the experiments of doctor Menguele.

Some visitors, like a called Thailander Arkom Rodkantook, allege that the museum does not seem to him as horrifying as they affirm. It says to have taken to its adolescent children so that they learn parasitology and medicine, and whom in addition a space dedicated to tsunamis are very interesting.

Others say that with all the blood and violence that can be seen in the cinema, the television… what this museum shows would not have to scare to anybody.

Nevertheless others affirm not to have seen something similar in their life, like a young British tourist called Daniel Brown.

The entrance is quite economic, costs 1.34 $ approximately.

A sinister museum, really frightful. Any peculiar tourist and who comes near to his sections, will have to be prepared to live a experience crude and quite difficult to forget.

Here one is what it is hidden after the human nature, a compendium of true atrocities. Some will be scared and others will feed their macabre curiosity.