Museo storico nazionale dell'arte sanitaria

Roma Capitale places the Museo storico nazionale dell'arte sanitaria inside the Palazzo del Commendatore, Borgo Santo Spirito 3. The museum's own site describes its home as the seventeenth-century wing of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia. Italian Wikipedia gives a Lungotevere in Sassia address and contradicts itself on the number; this guide follows Roma Capitale. The museum's own site records that it was conceived by professors Pietro Capparoni and Giovanni Carbonelli with General Mariano Borgatti and built on the collection of the old Anatomical Museum, and that it documents the passage of medicine, surgery and pharmacology from magic to science. Its holdings include anatomo-pathological preparations and wax models in the sala Flajani, Paolo Mascagni's anatomical plates, and oil paintings that belonged to the anatomist Guglielmo Riva in the sala Alessandrina. Italian Wikipedia adds the institutional chain: an Istituto per il Museo storico dell'Arte Sanitaria founded in 1920 and established by royal decree 1746 of 14 May 1922, which became the Accademia di Storia dell'Arte Sanitaria in 1934, with Santo Spirito granting it a wing in the former corsia Alessandrina in 1929.