Roberto Papi Museum, Salerno
The Roberto Papi Museum in Salerno is located in the historic building of Palazzo Galdieri, in its 11 large halls. Founded in September 2009, the museum stores a valuable collection of medical and surgical instruments, assembled by Roberto Papi. Thanks to rare exhibits dating back to the 17–20th centuries, it is one of the most important museums of its kind in the world.
The symbol of the museum is a woman dressed in a tunic and chiton representing the goddess of medicine who holds a snake that rolls around a stick and a peacock. They all have a special meaning: with the help of Mercury's wand you can treat sick people, the skin of a snake, represent life that revives, and the peacock is seen as a signal of a new day away from darkness of the night.
Expositions of the Roberto Papi Museum
Medical instruments are divided into exposition according to their branches:
- anatomy;
- anesthesiology;
- vaccination;
- orthopedics;
- cardiology;
- general surgery;
- military surgery;
- neurosurgery;
- ophthalmology;
- dentistry;
- obstetrics;
- gynecology;
- otorhinolaryngology;
- pulmonology;
- pneumology and pharmaceutical tools;
- rehabilitation, traumatology and urology.
Exhibits are stored in the museum in special boxes created by local designer Gelsominod'Ambrosio.
In addition, in separate halls, scenes of medical life, dental offices, field hospitals and pharmaceutical conditions were restored. On the ground floor there is a shop selling medicinal herbs.
How to get there
The nearest bus stop to the Roberto Papi Museum is called Chiesa S. Maria Delle Grazie or Largo Abate Conforti2, there is a bus № 43 that goes to them.
