With ToM's Italian translator — Luigi, the greasy delivery guy from the sloppy pizza shack down the street — temporarily out of the office, I can't tell you much about the Museum of Anatomical Waxes, although the gruesome images certainly speak for themselves.
I suspected that these waxes were created back in the 17th and 18th centuries, before photography and before it was widely accepted to dissect corpses for medical study, but according to this bio, Luigi Cattaneo was born as recently as 1925. There goes that theory.
If anyone knows more or can read Italian and explain the genesis of these models, I'd love to hear it in the comments. Otherwise, it's really one of those sites where someone of a specific morbid temperment can enjoy by random staccato clicking.
Museum of the Anatomical Waxes [Official Site] (via Museum of the Anatomical Waxes Luigi Cattaneo [Official Site] (via Hugo Strikes Back)
