Museum Boerhaave

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Lonely Planet review

Leiden University was an early centre for Dutch medical research, and the Museum Boerhaave gathers together five centuries of pickled organs, surgical tools and skeletons in its Anatomy Theatre (it's morbid, but just try to look away). The museum is housed in the hospital where the chronically ill Herman Boerhaave taught medicine from his sick-bed until his death in 1738.