The Museum of the History of Psychiatry is located in the Lombroso Pavilion, in the complex of the former San Lazzaro hospital. It tells the story of psychiatry in the asylum in Reggio Emilia, documented by the extraordinary bibliographic, archival, object and iconographic heritage of the San Lazzaro Institute, which includes instruments for restraint and therapy, scientific instruments and photographs documenting the life and history of the Institute since 1880. Among the many items on display in these rooms are straitjackets, electroshock machines, the infamous "helmets of silence", an early 19th-century urn used to drop a drop of water on the patient's head for calming purposes and a device for the so-called "light bath".