The Anthropology Museum is housed in a neoclassical building designed by the Marques de Cubas, which was founded in 1875 by physician Segovia Pedro González de Velasco to house the private collection of anthropology and ethnology, he had collected over several travel and establish residence there also. The building is located opposite Atocha station, on Calle Alfonso XII.
Photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org The gossip in Madrid of the late nineteenth century have a legend that happened in this building since I was little I has attracted and has never stopped sorpenderme:
Dr. Velasco had a daughter, Conchita, who died while still young, with 15 years because he administered a laxative to relieve his father of typhoid fever that remained bedridden. The doctor loved his daughter and in his obsession and guilt that, after death, embalmed using her own techniques.
And they say that the doctor kept his daughter embalmed in a glass case of his mansion, which drove her to a sitting at night for dinner with his family even took her out for a ride in his carriage dressed in finery, and carried the theater.
And they say that the mummy of the daughter of Dr. Velasco is on the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in a classroom-museum of the Department of Anatomy II, behind a board, without a grave or mausoleum.
Sources:
http://www.laplaza.com.es/madrid_insolito.asp?id = 29
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