The Animal Remains of Anderlecht's Creepy Abandoned Veterinary School

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Tim Cheyne — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:39:08 GMT

[quote user="Jenny Smith"]it's in the room at the bottom of the staircase where you would go through to the dissection rooms in the basement[/quote]

At first I thought of the anatomy/physiology workshop where they did the most amazing things with anatomy specimens and concocted Heath-Robinson-like machines for the physiology labs but that I am sure was on a sort of mezzanine floor above. The corridor that you mention was dark,drear and forbidding and mostly occupied by battered metal lockers. Sounds considerably improved.

Tim.

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Jenny Smith — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:11:35 GMT

It's much more high tech looking now, it's in the room at the bottom of the staircase where you would go through to the dissection rooms in the basement. Looks a bit like a posh shop, lots of spotlights and glass shelves etc! Nice and airy and open, although they did sacrifice our common room (which was relocated into a different basement room) for it

Jenny

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Tim Cheyne — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:57:43 GMT

[quote user="Jenny Smith"]The anatomy museum at Camden has been revamped so is a bit less creepy looking now.[/quote]

The old Pathology Museum at Camden, connecting the main building to the Institute of Pathology in the corner was transformed in the mid-sixties into a rather claustrophobic virology suite known popularly as 'the yellow submarine'. I don't know where the museum was relocated but it was never too bad, not smelly, well-lit and airy, just not very informative or useful!

Tim.

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Jenny Smith — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:33:24 GMT

The two headed calf is still around (2011 graduate). Think it's in the PM room at Hawkshead nowadays. The anatomy museum at Camden has been revamped so is a bit less creepy looking now.

I've done the 'backstage' tour at the NHM as well, very very interesting

Jenny

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Busybee — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:01:07 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]Wish I had a picture of the two headed calf[/quote]

I don't remember the one at Camden but there was one in the path rooms at Hawkshead

[quote user="Stephen Courtney"]Nothing more than a visit to the Hunterian museum at the RCS should show that these specimens should last a century or two before needing repotting.[/quote]

Or the Spirit collection in the Darwin centre at the Natural History Museum - I've been on the little-known 'backstage' tours three times now and always find it fascinating. They even have some of the exact specimens Darwin brought back on The Beagle voyage - nearly 200 years ago.

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Rob Davis — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:35:18 GMT

It sounds all very Scooby Doo....

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Stephen Courtney — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:25:13 GMT

As a former pathologist, this sequence rather reminds me of a Discovery pseudo medical shockumentary - basically a wind up. A few of the shots show things that might be voyeuristically entertaining, most just show dissolving blobs of disintegrating tissue that have little visual impact.

Perspex mounted formalin specimens should be sealed. the reek of formalin so gloatingly described, is either lies or evidence of Belgian incompetence. Nothing more than a visit to the Hunterian museum at the RCS should show that these specimens should last a century or two before needing repotting.

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Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:37:49 GMT

The old museum at Camden was my favourite place at college. Wish I had a picture of the two headed calf. Many perfect dissection specimens from the 60's and 70's.

I think the pictures are fascinating and hope the samples are preserved somewhere. Make a great museum display.

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Alex Gough — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:59:56 GMT

I read that title, think what a wonderful title for a novel!

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James Laidlaw — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:36:02 GMT

[quote user="Alet Engelbrecht"]

It reminds me of the basement of our Anatomy Hall - it had the remains of all weird and wonderful specimens that the vet school had seen over the years and, legend had it, the remains of some poor students who did not study hard enough!

[/quote] How'd you escape?

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Alet Engelbrecht — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:03:52 GMT