Good Nightmare...#52...The malformed fetuses museum in St. Petersburg...*

The museum of horrors in St. Petersburg is among the most special museums in the world. Open to the public since 1719, the Kuntskamera was built by Tsar Peter the Great: lover and avid collector of rarities. The museum has one of the collections of anthropology and ethnography most complete and interesting in the world. Among minerals, exotic stuffed animals, instruments of torture including an encounter, however, even among glass jars that keep in perfect copies of malformed fetuses...*

The images are chilling, gruesome, intended for a strong public stomach. Yet the idea behind the project of the Tsar was not to shock the visitors and inspire horror, indeed, among his noble intentions there was, of course, to persuade the culture of the time and free the people from stupid beliefs superstitious. The exposure in fetuses keep intact shape and color with a special preservative liquid, with a secret formula devised by the Dutch anatomist whom the tsar bought part of the exposed material. The walk to the museum is completed with an exhibition of the cruelest torture machines, vision is not recommended for children and people too easily impressionable sensibilie. It seems that the same Tsar offered to visitors of the time a shot of pure vodka to intoxicate the senses and overcome without too much trauma to walk through gruesome rarity...*