{"id":209764,"date":"2010-01-21T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"482 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-21T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:04:21","slug":"siriraj-medical-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209764","title":{"rendered":"Siriraj Medical Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/thailand\/bangkok\">Bangkok<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/thailand\">Thailand<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/museums-and-collections\/medical-museums\">Medical Museums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Housed in the oldest hospital &#8211; it&#8217;s where the King of Thailand goes when he is ill &#8211; and medical school in Thailand, est. 1886, the Siriraj Medical Museum abounds with medical curiosities. The Siriraj is actually comprised of six different museums: a museum of pathology, a forensics museum, a museum of the history of Thai medicine, a parasitology museum, an anatomical museum, and a prehistoric museum.<\/p>\n<p>The Siriraj&#8217;s incredible holdings include: Bones, preserved organs, pathological fetuses, the mummified corpse of a notorious serial killer, a traditional Thai medicine shop, parasitic worms, a two-and-a-half-foot-wide scrotum removed from a man afflicted with elephantiasis, preserved sections of human skin bearing tattoos, poisonous snakes and tarantulas, rows of skulls, the standing wax-filled remains of a cannibal, a delicately dissected nervous system, and the skeleton of the museum&#8217;s founder. <\/p>\n<p>A strong stomach is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>The Siriraj Museum website has lovely panoramic images of each museum. A personal account of a visit by an Atlas Obscura Team Memeber can be found here<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/240344493_183865905c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand | Medical Museums Housed in the oldest hospital &#8211; it&#8217;s where the King of Thailand goes when he is ill &#8211; and medical school in Thailand, est. 1886, the Siriraj Medical Museum abounds with medical curiosities. The Siriraj is actually comprised of six different museums: a museum of pathology, a forensics museum, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}