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Phantom Museum, The (2003)
 

Synopsis

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A museum curator, clad in black but for his white gloves, ascends staircases, walks along corridors, switches on lights and explores various rooms.

In them are cupboards containing medical artefacts, including prosthetic arms, hinged legs and hands with movable fingers, three-dimensional cutaway models of human beings (including pregnant women), miniature sculptures depicting human sexual activity, antique birthing chairs and forceps, chastity belts, skulls, shrunken heads, dried-up corpses and similar paraphernalia.

The inspection over, the curator removes his gloves - and his artificial leg.