oh, the things I learn in my reading......

Martin Dumollard...after his execution they cut off his head and it's now in a museum.

Born June 22, 1810 Tramoyes, Ain, France Died March 8, 1862 (aged 51) Montluel, Ain, France Cause of death Guillotined Other names "The Maid Killer" Raymond Conviction(s) Murder Criminal penalty Death Details Victims 3 Span of crimes 1855–1861 Country France State(s) Ain, Lyon Date apprehended June 2, 1861

(wikipedia) On March 7, 1862, the guillotine stored in Bourg-en-Bresse was carried away in Montluel. That same day, Father Béroud demanded that Dumollard share a last meal with his wife. Soon after, he was taken to Montluel on horseback, accompanied by Father Béroud.[45] The car arrived on March 8 at four in the morning in Montluel, awaited by a large crowd despite the morning schedule. As the Montluel Prison was in very poor condition, Dumollard was led to the Council Chamber where magistrate Simonnet awaited. He agreed to a final interview in private between Dumollard, Father Béroud and the priest of Montluel, Carrel.[46] Dumollard then drank a cup of coffee, then a last glass of Madeira wine.[47] At 6:45, Dumollard was asked to use the horseback to go to the scaffold 150 meters away, which he refused. Accompanied by Father Béroud, the parish priest Carrel and the executioners, and in front of a crowd of 5,000, Dumollard walked on foot to Bourgeat Square (now Place Carnot) where a scaffold was installed, on which he kneeled and kissed the crucifix presented.[47] He was executed around 7 o'clock in the morning.

The man's head was sent (in a special box) to the Lyon Medical School at the beginning of March 1862.[51][52] Upon receipt, studies were launched to analyze Dumollard's skull: thus several cast plasters are kept in the Testus-Latarjet Museum.[51] The skull was gradually abandoned and forgotten before being analyzed again in the 1960s. These works on the skull at the Hôpital d'instruction des armées Desgenettes concluded that Dumollard had an angioma on his lip.[51] In the mid-1980s, three researchers from Lyon, Claire Desbois, Claude Mallet and Raoul Perrot, developed a method of reconstructing the face from data derived from the single bone structure.[53] They call it "DMP",[54] of their initials, using this method to make a three dimensional representation of Dumollard's face. Comparison with photographs from the time period were used to validate the new method.[53] The result of this experimentation, the bust made from Dumollard's head after execution and the reconstituated face from the real skin of Dumollard are all preserved at the Testut-Latarjet Museum.[51]

imagine living a life where they cut off your head after your execution, study it, and then display it in a museum. FOREVER. seriously.