Professor Klaus-Dieter Budras (1941–2020) held the Chair of Veterinary Anatomy in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at FU Berlin from 1980 to 2006, conducting extensive research on the anatomy of dogs, horses and cattle. He was also the author of anatomical atlases of these species, which remain authoritative to this day. In this context, he developed new teaching models and a pioneering didactic concept incorporating a wide variety of objects. Wax preparations created on his behalf were used as templates for producing labelled topographical color charts and wall charts, which highlight the arrangement and surface structure of anatomical features of entire animals, their organs, and organ systems. There are also extensive bone preparations and various image media, such as slides and X-rays, which have been processed for teaching purposes. The publication templates for Budras’s atlases in the Veterinary Library also offer new insights into the production of anatomical illustrations that remain influential to this day. Using selected teaching objects relating to dogs, the project recreates and reinterprets the interconnection between the various objects and media representing anatomical knowledge of this species within a virtual environment.
The Digital Network for Collections supports digitization and the development of the virtual presentations.
