Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charite
(Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité)
Permeant exhibit
“On the Trace of Life” exhibit covers the history of medicine for the last 300 years. A great collection of specimens and artifacts in their stocks can be seen with special arrangements.
Pathological Specimens
Including Rudolf Virchow’s (the founder of the museum) special collection and various additions through the years the specimen collection today has about 10.000 pathological-anatomical dry and wet specimens.
Albrecht von Graefe Collection of Ophthalmological History
Contains about 1100 objects including letters, college records, lecture manuscripts, instruments, graphics, photographs, and medals from the German Ophthalmological Society, permanently loaned to the museum.
Manuscript and Rara Collection
This is the institutes own collection including their dissection protocols, laboratory books, specimen lists, photographs, slides, reprints, images, congratulation notes, paper cuts, letters, ex libris, notes, and lists of expenses. There are also some rare prints from the fields of anatomy and pathology.
Collection of Medical and Dental History
Mostly teaching devices, thematic tables with extracted teeth, tables of illustrations, specimens, models, wax moulages, prostheses, as well as objects from other fields of the history of medicine like diagnostic and therapeutic instruments with a focus on urology, microscopes, operation chairs and disinfection devices.
Visiting Hours:
10am to 5pm Tuesday through Sunday
10am to 7pm on Wednesday and Tuesdays
Museum is closed on Mondays
Admission:
Adult tickets are 7€/person and for groups of 10 or more 4€ /person.
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*Exhibitions include numerous anatomical specimens which may be irritating for young kids.
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** There is an age limit of 16.
How to get there:
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
Charitéplatz 1, D
10117 Berlin
Entrance through: Invalidenstraße (Alexanderufer), Schumannstraße (main check point, information), Luisenstraße (Charité main hospital bed building), Hannoversche Straße (Robert-Koch-Platz)
By public transportation: German Rail (DB) S5, S7, S75, S9 to Hauptbahnhof or Friedrichstraße; Underground line U6 to Naturkundemuseum or Oranienburger Tor
Bus line TXL, 123, 142, 147 and 245
