Museum Vrolik

The Vrolik Museum in Amsterdam, also known colloquially as the Mutant Museum, is a place intended for people with strong nerves. The main part of the collection are preparations presenting various astonishing, strange and often frightening human genetic mutations. In addition, the museum collects skeletons of people and animals, as well as wax anatomical models. The most valuable exhibits in the museum include several copies of twins, i.e. inseparable Siamese twins.

The museum owes its name to Willem Vrolik, a Dutch pathologist and anatomist. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, together with his father, he collected over two thousand unique anatomical and histopathological preparations. Later, the museum exhibition was expanded to include the so-called Hovius collection, i.e. a collection of skeleton bones collected by Jacob Hovius. The museum is based at the Academic Medical Center.