This Museum In The City Is A Brain Teaser You Can't Miss

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NIMHANS Brain Museum, Wilson Garden, Bengaluru

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What Makes It Awesome?

This specialised museum can awe many visitors while also making many other visitors squeamish, with its display of 400 human brains in see-through plastic jars.

Collected over from more than 35 years, the museum exhibits brains affected by various head injuries, cerebrovascular diseases, brain infections, neurodegenerative disorders, brain tumors, and brains of a few species of animals as well.

The most interesting part about this museum is that visitors are allowed to touch and feel the real human brain on request. Some of the highlights of the collection are a brain with worms in it, brains affected by Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, smoker’s lungs, and electro-micrographs showing the complexity of the nervous system.

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Sahapedia is an open online resource on the arts, cultures and histories of India based on both curated and crowd-sourced content. ‘Saha’ (Sanskrit for ‘together with’), is an invitation to explore together the richness of the Indian cultural landscape. At Sahapedia, we appreciate that knowledge around each subject is complex and has many dimensions. Sahapedia is working on areas like developing a digital library; linking with online archives of texts, recordings, translation; curating material that makes tourism more meaningful, creating resources for education responsive to local histories and needs, developing scholarly resources , and making the best use of digital interactives to explain formal techniques in fields such as music, architecture, textile, etc.