Museumsportal Berlin

The permanent exhibition of the Berlin Medical Historical Museum, an institution of the Charité – University of Medicine Berlin, offers, on an exhibition space of 800 square meters, to our visitors a 'Walk under the Skin and back to Life'. Along the paths of the scientific founded medicine, the visitors enter specific rooms representing the western-occidental medicine of the last three centuries:

Anatomic theatre, dissecting room of the pathologist, laboratory, hospital, and examination room – the view follows the efforts of the orthodox medicine, to get an image of the inner of the human body – both the healthy and the ill one –, to understand its functioning, to list it diagnostically, and to analyse it for the development of therapeutic strategies. Each floor has a special focus, for example the Virchow's collection of specimen, the historical ward with 10 'cases' from three centuries, from a 'difficult birth' in 1726 to a sepsis patient at the intensive care ward in 2006 – a trial to make visible the history of patients by the means of the museum.