# After 5 PM Slip Brains Through Slot in Door **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-pm-slip-brains-through-slot-in-door/679851 "2014-01-27T16:10:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-pm-slip-brains-through-slot-in-door/679851/1 "2014-01-27T16:10:23Z")
Eye-Gore would have no problem finding a good selection of brains at the Museum of Neuroanatomy in Buffalo, NY, colloquially called The Brain Museum. It’s this week’s featured site at Roadside America: > **[Brain Museum, Buffalo, New York](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/38659)** > > Officially known as the Museum of Neuroanatomy, this display of pickled head meat is the largest human brain collection open to the public in the USA. My favorite bit: > [@](#): > > So where does the Brain Museum get its samples? Dr. Cohan said that most are retrieved from the 200 to 400 bodies donated each year to the medical school. “I’ll try to take the one that looks in the best shape,” he said, mentioning a vat that holds up to 50 brains at a time, named The Think Tank. We suggested to Dr. Cohan that a replica Think Tank might make a good bobbing-for-apples-style exhibit for the museum. Dr. Cohan replied that it’s just that kind of idea that make devising real interactive brain displays difficult (He meant it as a compliment). The Biology of Man exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science, by the way, used to have a big Plexiglas dome with specimens of several different animal brains in it. It’s gone now, in the wake of a massive redesign of the exhibit. But I used to go in there and immediately think “10o quatloos on the bare-chested starship captain!” [https://www.google.com/search?q=Boston+Museum+of+Science+Brains+images&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=knUWIfTKedsIRM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcS8Oa7K5JtKI8ueOqEpmyTpSNQwGaIH8RUVZcjj8xFgol44gPum%253B640%253B404%253BNT0m8-fOa7yevM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.flickr.com%25252Fphotos%25252Fcuriousexpeditions%25252F3368040855%25252F&sa=X&ei=3oTmUtn\_F-LmsATfh4LoCA&ved=0CC0Q9QEwAw&biw=1920&bih=937#facrc=\_&imgdii=\_&imgrc=knUWIfTKedsIRM%253A%3BNT0m8-fOa7yevM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%252F3555%252F3368040855\_83ac75c8ec\_z.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fphotos%252Fcuriousexpeditions%252F3368040855%252F%3B640%3B404](https://www.google.com/search?q=Boston+Museum+of+Science+Brains+images&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=knUWIfTKedsIRM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcS8Oa7K5JtKI8ueOqEpmyTpSNQwGaIH8RUVZcjj8xFgol44gPum%253B640%253B404%253BNT0m8-fOa7yevM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.flickr.com%25252Fphotos%25252Fcuriousexpeditions%25252F3368040855%25252F&sa=X&ei=3oTmUtn_F-LmsATfh4LoCA&ved=0CC0Q9QEwAw&biw=1920&bih=937#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=knUWIfTKedsIRM%253A%3BNT0m8-fOa7yevM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ffarm4.staticflickr.com%252F3555%252F3368040855_83ac75c8ec_z.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fphotos%252Fcuriousexpeditions%252F3368040855%252F%3B640%3B404) ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-pm-slip-brains-through-slot-in-door/679851/2 "2014-01-27T18:21:40Z")
Abbie someone. Abbie Normal. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-pm-slip-brains-through-slot-in-door/679851/3 "2014-01-27T23:51:40Z")
I live 20 miles from Buffalo. How is it I’ve never heard of this?