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An anatomical theatre was an institution used in teaching anatomyat early modernuniversities.

The theatre was usually a room of roughly amphitheatricalshape, in the centre of whích would stand the table on which the dissectionsof human or animal bodies took place. Around this table were several circular, elliptic or octagonal tiers with railings, where students or other observers could stand and get a good view of the dissection almost from above and unencumbered by the spectators in the rows in front.

The first anatomical theatre was built at the University of Paduain 1594 and is still preserved. Another almost as early one is the Theatrum Anatomicum of Leiden University, built in 1596. The latter was reconstructed in 1988. It was common to display skeletons at some place the theatre; in Leiden, 17th century depictions show that the living observers were actually accompanied in the rows by a large number of animal and human skeletons, some of which held banners with inscriptions such as Memento mori.

Another early example was built in the Palazzo dell'Archiginnasioof the University of Bologna. The building dates from 1563 and the anatomical theatre from 1637.

The anatomical theatre completed in 1663 by medical professor and amateur architect Olaus Rudbeckfor the University of Uppsalais located in the idiosyncratic cupola which Rudbeck placed on top of the Gustavianum building, at the time the main building of the university. Rudbeck had spent time in Leiden, and both the anatomical theatre and the botanical garden he founded in Uppsala in 1655 were influenced by his experiences there.

Thomas Jeffersonbuilt an anatomical theatre for the University of Virginia. It was completed in 1827 but demolished in 1938 to leave place for a new library building.

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