RSU Anatomy Museum presents a historic teaching collection of human anatomy in Riga’s Anatomical Theatre complex. Real human remains, drawings and contemporary interpretation invite visitors to learn about bodily variation and the history and ethics of anatomical study.
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At the entrance to Riga Stradiņš University’s Anatomy Museum is a reminder that anatomical collections are also human histories. Jānis Teodors Lukstiņš, who died in 1925 aged 27, had requested that his body be given to the Anatomical Theatre. The museum identifies his as its first voluntary body donation and one of the few preparations for which a donor is known.
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- The collection was developed for medical teaching in the 1920s and 1930s.
- The museum identifies Jānis Teodors Lukstiņš as its first voluntary body donor.
- The public museum opened in its adapted former stable in 2021.
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