Museo di Antropologia criminale Cesare Lombroso, Università diTorino

Unique in the world for its kind, the Museum is dedicated to Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909), the founder of criminal anthropology. The Museum deals with the themes of deviance, with a focus on crime and madness.
The exhibition provides visitors with the concepts useful for understanding how and why Cesare Lombroso formulated the theory of criminal atavism and what errors led him to found a science that later turned out to be wrong.
The collections include anatomical preparations, drawings, photographs, crime bodies, writings and handicraft and artistic productions by asylum inmates and prisoners from the second half of the 19th and early 20th century.
The restoration of the museum involved the objects of the main collections, including those of bodies of crime, wax and plaster masks, paper, wood and textile artefacts. In addition, the plaster and stucco work was also restored, with the original paintwork, the Venetian 'seminato' floors and the display cases.
The exhibition is divided into nine rooms. The museum keeps a rich historical archive that can be consulted partly online and partly by appointment.

The Museum of Criminal Anthropology offers: guided tours for schools of all levels, national and European events such as La Notte dei Musei and La Notte dei Ricercatori, concerts, lectures, theatre performances and book presentations.