Oct 22, 2008 Wed

2nd floor in building 28 in a hospital complex
A sign says it will be closed tomorrow, I'm not sure if it means forever.
It contains :
Songkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum ? Internal Organs, Murderer Cadavers, Dead Babies ? the gory grimness all you can eat.
Gua Ketusingh museum of Thai medicine ? I can't find this museum anywhere, but judge by the name, I don't think I missed anything.
Parasitological museum ? If you want to enjoy your lunch afterwards, don't come here. Actually if you want to enjoy lunch for the next three days, don't bother to visit.
Ellis Pathological museum ? I wonder where the killer dildo is but only find photos of the Thai king playing doctor. Unless you are a fan of the Thai king, you will quickly skip through this museum.

Since no photo is allowed, I would do my best to describe the glory gore in words:

Upon entrance, there are some exhibition about the 2004 tsunami and how the tsunami victims were treated.
Then there are some human figures demonstrating giving birth to babies.
Further inside, there are some skulls injured in car accident by dragging along the road, and another injured by burn, and one suffered laceration from a sharp object.
You can also find some human hearts with gunshot wounds, and intestines damaged by drinking acid (coca cola anyone?), and tongues and spleens with gunshot wound.
Not to miss the amputated arm and foot. Complimented with a severed arm with tattoo (of a smoking farmer).
There's placenta fetus of 6 months gestation age baby from pregnant woman with abortion due to abnormal injury in car accident.
And the usual cigarette smoker lung, and babies fetus at different stages.

Every here and there, there was a reminder that visitors can buy postcards of these gory details in the souvenir shop.

There are four cadavers of rape murderer after death sentence. One is the body of si quey.

The highlight is the pink T-shirt belonged to the victim stabbed to death by a dildo (both the dildo and T-shirt is placed neatly inside the glass case.)
There's a throat cut by beer bottle but the worst belongs to the blast force cadaver. A dead raccoon road kill will look prettier.

There's also an urn which used to contain a dead child. The label says asphysial death burn. It's so spooky that I've nightmares about the urn a few nights later.

Thanks to the helpful forensic museum, you will know exactly how your cadaver will look like if you die in a motorcycle accident or lacerated by sharp object in the skull. With enough imagination you can also visualize the road kill pattern of your remains if you die in an explosion.

This museum will convert a raw oyster eater to a humble vegetarian. This museum is not much tamer than the last one.
You can see the victim of elephantiasis or filariasis (transmitted by mosquitoes), illustrated by a human figure with scrotums as big as a small sofa.
There's photos of large ring worms protruded from an unlucky victim.
Don't forget scabies, malaria worms, house dust mites and ticks and all sorts of nasty stuffs.

Like the gore internals organs of the B-movies, only these are real.

Human face, baby face, more dead fetus, and even a full gown baby.
Literally hundreds of dead babies, different favors of deformed babies?
two dead, attachment to middle trunk
thoracopagus parasiticus (head in body)
epionathus parasiticus (grow from mouth)

They even got a bones and joints section for all the T-bone lovers.

Almost a relief to visit this museum, not just the air con, but also the bones here are dead for millions of years and lose all the glory details of death.

It is next to the water house station in the guest house district.
Got Satellite TV, hot shower, air con, big bed for 550B
It is clean but smells bad. Probably because it doesn't have a flushing toilet, but it is easy enough to flush (one person, no problem)

Location: close to the TNT guest house, on the opposite side of the road.
During happy hour, buy two drinks get 1 free until 7:30 pm.
Ordered a Thai omelet and a fried glass noodle with egg and veggie.
It also has a large ice-cream dessert selection
The staffs are friendly