Museo di Antropologia Criminale Cesare Lombroso

"What about a rainy day? Beside the most famous Egyptian Museum, Cinema Museum, and Automobile Museum, this small museum a few steps away from Valentino Park will send a chill down your spine. True crime lovers can find a collection of skulls, wax models, sketches, weapons, and other eerie objects. The macabre collection was put together by Italian criminologist and eugenicist Cesare Lombroso to display his famous "criminal atavism" theory: according to Lombroso, the shape and size of the skull and other body parts can determine if an individual is "destined" to be a criminal, thus making criminal behavior a genetic trait instead of the result of environmental factors. His theories have of course been challenged and dismissed, but his contribution to criminology studies has been and still is recognized all over the world to this day."