RSU Museum

Rīga Stradiņš University Anatomy Museum

The application provides a possibility to learn in detail about 20 exciting exhibits from the collection of the Rīga Stradiņš University Anatomy Museum.

Application The museum multimedia app provides a possibility to explore in detail exciting exhibits from the museum collection. After downloading the application, go to museum and find the exhibits highlighted in the exposition. Scanning the exhibit’s QR code you will open the app section where you can view the exhibits from all sides, learn their history, delve into anatomy and listen to experts’ comments.

Offsite application The app content is fully available when visiting the museum’s exposition. When the exhibit’s QR code is scanned, the respective app section will be available also offsite after the visit to the museum.

About the museum The Rīga Stradiņš University Anatomy Museum at is a specific museum with a historical collection and a modern approach. It is a place where to learn about the versatility of the human body. Moreover, to learn about it in reality – to see what usually is seen only by the surgeon or anatomist. The museum is developed on the basis of the first anatomical collection for study purposes in Latvia. It was started in the Anatomy Theatre in the first half of the 20th century and since 2020 anyone interested is welcome to get acquainted with the new collection.

20 exciting exhibits The museum displays anatomical specimens – organs and parts of the body – the anatomists prepared for the training of medical students in the 1920s-1930s. Even today, they help people to learn about human anatomy, its normalcy and variations, human development and deviations from the norm. On the one hand, 20 exciting exhibits give an overview about all the main themes of the exposition. On the other hand, each of them is unique with its own extraordinary story.