celebrity organ exhibition

Princeton University medical center, Einstein’s brain
Einstein died in 1955 in a Princeton hospital, the doctor Thomas Harvey removed his brain without approval, he wants to study how’d he get to be so smart. 40 years later, under pressure, Harvey who has loss medical license gave Einstein’s brain back to Einstein’s granddaughter. Now, Einstein’s brain was on display at the Princeton hospital.


Holy Cross Church, Chopin’s heart
Chopin is a gifted pianist and composer, who died from tuberculosis in Paris, at the age of 39. Chopin has made it clear that his heart belongs to Warsaw. So after his death, his sister secretly takes his heart back to Warsaw, and sealed in a pillar of the Holy Cross Church.

Florence history of Science Museum, Galileo’s finger
Galileo died in 1737, 100 years later, his fingers were on display at Florence. Although between 1905 and 2009, a finger was stolen by one person and attempt to sell. Fortunately, a scientist saw and bought it. Now the three fingers are on display at the Florence history of science museum.

National Museum, tibia of the murderer who killed Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth became a notorious man in the history of the United States because of the assassination of President Lincoln, after 12 days of escape, he was killed by the bullet pierced his tibia. His body was buried in Baltimore, but the pierced tibia was exhibited in the National Museum.

Mutter Museum, conjoined livers of conjoined twins
Conjoined twins Eng Bunker and Chang Bunker were born in Siam of Thailand in 1811. At the age of 18, they were invited to the exhibition in America, then they settled in North Carolina, and married twin sisters as a wife. They take turns to spend the night in the room of their own wife. At the age of 63, Chang Bunker died of pneumonia, 3 months later Eng Bunker also died unknown. The people found that they did not share a liver after they died, they all have their own liver, the two livers are connected through a cartilage. Now the conjoined livers were exhibited at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.

Wiener Stephansdom, St. Stephen’s hand
As the first king of Hungary, St. Stephen has play a decisive role in the hearts of the people of Hungary. He made a significant contribution to Hungary, but no descendants. So, he raised his right hand and prayed to the Virgin Maria to hope to have the right people can succeed to the throne. The strange thing is that his right hand was not rotted like other organs of the body after his death. So the people put his hand in a reliquary, and exhibited in the church which was named after his name.

Science museum in Maine, Washington’s hair
When President Washington died in 1799, the whole nation was in deep mourning, a congressman’s daughter Eliza Wordsworth was very sad, she wants to get Washington’s handwriting and a strand of hair as a souvenir. Later, after the death of Eliza, Washington’s hair was on display at the science museum in Maine, through her will.

Russian sex museum, Rasputin’s genital
Rasputin is the most controversial figure in modern history of Russia, he was murdered in 1916 because he had an improper relationship with the Russian Empress Alexandra. In fact, he was first being poisoned, the back and the left of the body was shot in succession, then was badly beaten up, in the end, he was thrown into the icy neva river. People found that the cause of his death was drowning after the autopsy. Then there are rumors that his genital had been cut off when Rasputin’s body was found. 100 years later, Rasputin’s genital was on display at the sex museum in St. Petersburg in Russia.


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