Siriraj Medical Museum is a medical museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 in Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

, Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

. It is located in the Siriraj Hospital

Siriraj Hospital

Siriraj Hospital is the oldest hospital in Thailand, located in Bangkok on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, opposite Thammasat University's Tha Phrachan campus...

 and consists of several medical museums on the site including the Forensic Medicine Museum. The museum is open to the public, and is a valuable resource for both medical professionals and laymen.

Description

Located at the Siriraj Hospital

Siriraj Hospital

Siriraj Hospital is the oldest hospital in Thailand, located in Bangkok on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, opposite Thammasat University's Tha Phrachan campus...

, it has a large collection of important specimens related to the modern history of medicine in Thailand. The museum contains six permanent exhibits, plus a temporary exhibit. The six sections with permanent exhibits address the following fields:

• Anatomy
  Anatomy
  Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...
  
  
• Pathology
  Pathology
  Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....
  
  
• Congenital disorder
  Congenital disorder
  A congenital disorder, or congenital disease, is a condition existing at birth and often before birth, or that develops during the first month of life , regardless of causation...
  
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• Toxicology
  Toxicology
  Toxicology is a branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms...
  
  
• Thai traditional medicine
  Thai traditional medicine
  Thai Traditional Medicine is the name given to methods and practices that have been handed down from monks and incorporate local knowledge of herbs. In Thailand, a century ago it was 'outlawed as quackery' in favour of western medicine...
  
  
• Forensic pathology
  Forensic pathology
  Forensic pathology is a branch of pathology concerned with determining the cause of death by examination of a corpse. The autopsy is performed by the pathologist at the request of a coroner or medical examiner usually during the investigation of criminal law cases and civil law cases in some...
  
  

In 2008, the temporary exhibit featured the role of Siriraj Hospital faculty during the 2004 tsunami that devastated the coasts of Thailand and other countries.

Notable displays

In the forensic medicine section of the Siriraj Medical Museum, there is on display the mummified

Mummy

A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...

 remains of the first serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

 in the modern history of Thailand, Si Ouey Sae Urng, mistakenly romanized to "Si Quey" (the sae is the Thai signifier of a Chinese clan name, in this case Urng). Si Quey was a cannibal serial killer who preyed on children and was active in the 1950s. He was convicted and executed, then mummified and put on display as a deterrent against violent crime. There are also displays of skulls and other body parts in glass cases, many of them victims of murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

by various means.

External links

• Forensic museums in Thailand at Thai oasis