Malakow Turm: Medizinische Sammlung der Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Bochum

The Medical History Collection of the Ruhr University Bochum is a collection of more than 10,000 instruments and large-scale equipment from all fields of medicine. It is housed in an old malakow tower of the former Julius-Philipp colliery dating from 1877. The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum is the responsible body.

The founder of the collection was the physician Erich Püschel. In 1990, he gave the collection of medical objects from the 19th and 20th centuries, consisting of 10,000 pieces and 5,000 books, to the Ruhr University Bochum. The permanent exhibition "Descent into the Hidden. The Conquest of the Human Body by Medical Technology" presents the human body inside the tower from the surface to the cell, from prehistoric times to the present, addressing the history and ethics of medicine. Three of the nine tower levels are occupied by the permanent exhibition, while other levels display information about the tower or special exhibitions. The museum is open to the public one morning a week and as part of the public tour on the first Sunday of the month.