Bojnice Castle exhibits human deformities

The Owl Man, the One-eyed Man, the Armless Woman and the Mule-faced Woman - all will be on show at the 'Human Body Disasters' exhibition, which has been prepared by the Bojnice Museum of the Slovak National Museum, its PR manager Petra Gordíková told TASR on Tuesday. Faithful reproductions of such people, most of whom used their disability in life and in work in the circus, will be displayed in the former Castle Restaurant until August 31, in Bojnice (Prievidza district, Trenčín region). "The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to meet exceptional people and see with your own eyes a man with three eyes, suffering from a congenital defect that caused a bifurcated face, the Owl Man, who thanks to deformed neck vertebrae could turn his head 180 degrees, or the man who was born without upper limbs but, nevertheless, was able to shoot perfectly from a bow and even hit flying targets", said Gordíková. She added that visitors will be able to see 25 faithful wax models of these and other people made by artists from Saint Petersburg's Museum of Anthropology, based on contemporary sources about people with congenital anomalies. "The wax figures are precise to the smallest detail. Real human hair and eye and dental implants employed in medicine were used, among other things, in their manufacture", said Gordíková.