ABSTRACT
In the 1870s, a young Cesare Lombroso transformed his (initially itinerant) private collection into a museum, which was institutionalized as such at the University of Turin in 1876. Born in Verona in 1835, Lombroso held a Doctorate in Forensic Medicine, and was a psychiatrist, anthropologist and criminologist. Early on, he asserted his political stance by adopting Italian citizenship at a time when North-east Italy had long been under Hapsburg reign and was still striving towards unification.
