hy doesn't this look like the laboratories you've seen in the Frankenstein movies? The Frankenstein story has been retold many times and in many different ways since 1818, when the original novel was published. In some of these retellings, for example, modern scientific instruments outfit Victor's lab or perhaps the horror of the story has been emphasized over other themes from Mary Shelley's original novel. In The Bakken's exhibit, Victor's laboratory is historically accurate; it is true to the period and place (Europe in the 1790s) in which Victor would have been doing his work. The Bakken's collections include scientific and medical instruments that really could have been found in a late 18th-century electrical laboratory, and you see some of those instruments here. Click on different places in the photo to discover more about the science, scientific literature, and cultural context that influenced Victor Frankenstein's fateful discovery.