Anatomical Museum in the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place

Professor William Turner was the driving force behind the building of the new Medical School and Anatomical Museum at Teviot Place. Designed by Robert Rowand Anderson, the museum opened in 1884. In common with other anatomy museums of the time it displayed comparative anatomy (human and animal skeletons). The museum was spectacular, designed as a grand top-lit gallery to allow marine mammal skeletons to be suspended from the ceiling.

University of Edinburgh, Anatomy Collection: 15072