Il Museum of the History of Medicine in Rome, founded in 1938 by Adalberto Pazzini, has a rich collection of historical-medical objects, many of which are original, that allow the reconstruction of the evolution of medical knowledge from prehistory to genomic medicine.
The Museum, designed for educational and outreach purposes, is equipped with interactive video and multimedia supports that allow for an in-depth exploration of the main themes of the history of medicine, biomedicine, and the relationships between biomedical sciences and society, integrating, both for primary and secondary schools and at the university level, the teaching of the history of medicine and bioethics. The museum path is divided over three floors.
The basement floor houses environment reconstructions: the apothecary and the alchemist’s workshop. The first floor offers a journey from prehistory to the 17th century, through the illustration of the medicine of ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean basin and the Middle Ages. The second floor describes the transition from experimental medicine to the recent challenges of biomedicine, genomic medicine, and related technological applications.
