May 2007 – BERLIN – SCHMERZ/PAIN

The passion of Christ
Religious artefacts are an important part of the exhibition. In what is perhaps the Western world’s most vivid image of human suffering, the passion of Jesus Christ is in the foreground of these religious exhibits. But always mixing the religious with the scientific, several exhibits also recall the experiments of Frederick T. Zugibes, an American doctor who in the late 1940s hung his assistants by the cross in order to measure the precise pains incurred by crucifixion.