Professor Klaus-Dieter Budras (1941–2020) held the Chair of Veterinary Anatomy at the FU Berlin’s Department of Veterinary Medicine from 1980 to 2006. He conducted extensive research on the anatomy of dogs, horses, and cattle, and was also the author of anatomical atlases of these species that remain authoritative to this day. In this context, he developed new teaching models and a pioneering didactic concept that incorporated a wide variety of objects. Wax specimens created on his behalf were used as templates for producing labeled topographical color charts and wall charts, highlighting the arrangement and surface structure of the anatomical features for entire animals, their organs, and organ systems. There are also extensive bone specimens and various image media, such as slides and X-rays, that were created for teaching purposes. The publishing templates for Budras’s atlases at the Veterinary Library also offer new insights into the production of anatomical illustrations that are still influential today . Using selected teaching objects relating to dogs, this project recreates and reinterprets interconnections between the various objects and media representing anatomical knowledge of this species within a virtual environment.
The Digital Network for Collections is supporting the digitization of the diverse materials, the data recording as well as the development of virtual presentations.
Photos: Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) specimens from the collections of the Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, photo: B. Ludewig, 2025
