Veterinary Anatomy Theater

5 Tilman Benecke - 2 months ago

Animals used to be observed here by professors, today people are observed by the staff. Admission was free but there were a few people rushing around who looked at you questioningly and weren't sure what you actually wanted here. I wanted to see the architecture and it's very interesting. One of those walking around there explained to me that today this is a place for experimental and performative knowledge exhibitions with a laboratory character.

5 BOUZIANI ABDELAZIZ - 9 months ago

Perfect free place, but nit easy to find, there is many closed roads around the museum

5 Lekso Kanchaveli - 4 years ago

Constructed in 1789 by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the same architect behind the Brandenburg Gate, the Tieranatomisches Theater at Humboldt University of Berlin is a beautiful building that witnessed decades of animal dissections.

The establishment of the anatomical theater was directed by King Frederik William II, who thought the horses and cattle of the country needed a veterinary medicine school to study their diseases. The dome was built with an illuminating truss structure to let in light before electricity. Adorning the inside are murals of livestock and rural scenes, while animal heads and skulls decorate the building’s exterior. Use of the theater for animal dissections started in 1790, and the bodies were raised and lowered on a table that moved through the floor.

The building is now Berlin’s oldest surviving academic structure. After an extensive restoration, the Tieranatomisches Theater was reopened to the public in 2012. Now while exhibitions are being held in the space visitors can experience the classicist theater with all its 18th century medical glory, luckily without the grisly stench.

4 David Y - 3 years ago

Interesting but small museum

5 Galo Enrique Rivera - 8 months ago

I love the lecture room in this building

4 Clemens Bruhn - 5 years ago

Pretty cool place.

5 Alexander Humbsch - 3 years ago

(Translated by Google) Worth seeing building, very nice classicism. Bizarre and at the same time indicative of the original purpose are the cow skull sculptures in the window arches. Is a bit hidden and away from the usual tourist routes. Very nice renovated. Free to visit, donations welcome. Very friendly staff at the entrance.

(Original)
Sehenswertes Gebäude, sehr schöner Klassizismus. Bizarr und gleichzeitig hinweisend auf den ursprünglichen Zweck sind die Kuhschädelplastiken in den Fensterbögen. Liegt etwas versteckt und abseits der üblichen Touristenrouten. Sehr schön renoviert. Gratis zu besichtigen, Spenden willkommen. Sehr freundliches Personal am Einlass.