Bangkok Again - Forensic Museum

Monday 15 May
(WARNING SOME CONTENT MAY DISTURB)
Em's entry:
This was listed in Lonely Planet of one of the more bizarre things to do Thailand. Right up my alley.
Caught taxi and then boat across river to Forensic Museum which is located in one of the blocks attached to the hospital.
When we walk in we are confronted by graphic photos showing pictures of dead bodies and cause of death (and when I say graphic I mean graphic - (ie) stabbing victims, bodies with tyre marks, neck slashed with beer bottle - definitley NOT for faint hearted.)
There was also a section dedicated to the Tsunami interms of forensic teams - including photos of hundreds and hundreds of dead bloated bodies lying in rows on beach as forensic scientists tried to match their identities.

As we wandered through the museum their are bodies of babies and foetus's encased & preserved in jars and bottles with cause of death. Full standing glass cases of adult bodies mummified of rapists that had been executed including one of famous Thai serial killer "Si Ouey" who ate his victim's livers. They had trays at the bottom of them to catch any leakage...ewww

Other displays included: dissections of hearts, brains, livers, with captions stating cause of death (ie) gunshot, haemmorrage, poisoning.

It was all laid out in a very scientific way. Very interesting.

There was a Parasite mueseum about effects of malaia and other parasital diseases, but we didn't stay too long there as that was just gross.

We went over to another building to see other Pathology/Forensic museum. This building was quite creepy - 1950's old building.
This museum contained a large quantity of babies - lots of siamese twins (aka conjoined twins. Bodies that had been fully dissected in half so you could see the internal organs.
An elderly gentleman greeted us as we entered and said he was here to pay a visit to his teacher. He then took us to meet his teacher who was a skeleton encased in glass cabinet on display.
The man was a doctor who had studied here under the guidance of his teacher - the skeleton.
We wondered around taking ain all the displays including walking past a stainless steel basin that had relatively fresh bloodstains on it. They must still use the rooms for dissection etc. Very authentic...

The final museum was a Primative Museum containing photos. bones, tools uised by primative man. As we walked through the hall walked right through the middle of a morgue. Eyes to the front.

Anyhow for me & Tere the whole experience was entirely fascinting.
Something neither of us will see in NZ me thinks.