Macabre museum is a morbid and grisly delight

"LIVE EVERY moment," says the woman next to me, as we stare into the softly lit display case in front of us. Inside it, we are looking at a real human heart. It is her heart

Welcome, then, to the newly reopened Hunterian Museum, free to enter, where nothing is in its right place.

Jennifer Sutton's heart in a jar is probably one of the least mad exhibits in this fantastic collection of organs, body parts and bones in glass jars and cabinets. There are skulls, lips, teeth, tongues, throats, stomachs, intestines, testes, penises, and ovaries in varying states of health. Those are just the human bits. Expect to see also elephant brains, infected boar skulls, dissected eels, sea mice, electric rays, and parts of a minke whale bought whole from a London pub.