A part of the Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok which was established in the 19th century for the practice of western medicine in Thailand, the Songkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum, named after a Thai pioneer in forensic medicine is the first of its kind in the country. The museum displays a large collection of forensic specimens and paraphernalia related to Thailand’s recent history.

During its existence of over a century the hospital became the repository of several unique collections of medical equipment, archives, laboratory specimens and other items of interest which were organized  as six museums in one area of the hospital in 2004. The Songkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum is one of the most informative and popular venues that the public seems unable to resist maybe because some of its exhibits are linked to many scandalous stories linked to the country’s recent past.

Definitely a place for the ghoulish, the museum, in addition to a collection of evidence from crime scenes around the country and a range of ingenious murder weapons also displays really fascinating exhibits of embalmed bodies and body parts of fearsome murderers and rapists that terrorized the country and severed body parts of victims. The most ghoulish of all is the exhibit of a standing wax filled body of a 1950s supposed cannibal. A series of autopsy, crime and accident scene photographs show in graphic detail and colour gruesome deaths due to automobile, train, motorcycle and industrial accidents and fatal injuries caused by broken bottles, gunshots and knives. Interestingly the skeleton of the museum’s founder, Dr. Songkran is also among the exhibits. As a resource centre for medical students and a place seeking to educate the public, the museum certainly achieves its goal but it is certainly not a place for the faint hearted.

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