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Museums/Collections
- Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences
- American Museum of Natural History
- American Red Cross Museum
- Anatomical Museum of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
- Apothekenmuseum “Steinernen Haus”
- Berlin Medical Historical Museum of the Charité
- Bodyworlds
- Cape Medical Museum
- Chimborazo Medical MuseumChimborazo Medical Museum
- Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum
- Das Anatomische Museum der Universität Basel
- Das Brukenthal Museum
- Das Pharmazie-Historische Museum Basel
- Dennis Sever's House, 18 Folgate Street
- Deutsche Apotheken Museum
- Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
- Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ingolstadt
- Dittrick Medical History Center
- Dr. Guislain Museum
- Exploratorium
- Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum (Pathologisch-Anatomisches Bundesmuseum)
- Freud Museum
- German Epilepsy Museum
- Glore Psychiatric Museum
- Gordon Museum
- Grant Museum
- Great Ormond Street Hosptial For Children
- Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
- Hunterian Museum (Glasgow)
- Hunterian Museum (London)
- Ingenious
- Institut für Medizingeschichte, Bern
- International Museum of Surgical Science
- International Museum of Surgical Science
- Jenner Museum
- Jikei Medical University in Tokyo
- Josephinum
- Kawasaki Medical University Museum of Modern Medical Education
- Kircher Society List of Anatomical Museums
- Krankenhaus-Museum
- Kunstkamera
- Kunstkammer Georg Laue
- La Specola
- Leprosy Museum
- Leprosy Museum - St. George's Hospital
- Litauisches Museum für Geschichte der Medizin der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Vilnius
- Medical Collection of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu
- Medical History Museum in Gothenburg
- Medical Museum at Nesstofa
- Medicinhistoriska Museet
- Medisch Erfgoed
- Medizinhistorische Sammlung des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Medizin
- Medizinhistorisches Museum der Universität Zürich
- Melbourne Medical History Musuem
- Mobile Medical Museum
- Moulagenmuseum, Universitätsspital Zürich
- MuSeele Museum, Museum für die Geschichte der Psychiatrie und Psychiatriegeschichten
- Musee Flaubert et d'Histoire du Medecine
- Museo de Historia de la Medicina y de la Cirugía “Vicente Aníbal Risolía”
- Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato
- Museo di Anatomia Patologica dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya
- Museum Anatomicum, Marburger
- Museum Boerhaave
- Museum anatomicum - Medizinhistorisches Museum der Philipps-Universität Marburg
- Museum für Medizin-Metereologie
- Museum für Naturkunde of the Humbold-University in Berlin (Berlin Museum of Natural History)
- Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch
- Museum of Anatomical Waxes (Museo delle Cere Anatomiche)
- Museum of Funeral Customs
- Museum of Health, Turkey
- Museum of Human Anatomy at the University of Turin
- Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Museum of Medicine and Public Health - part of the National Medical Library, Prag
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Museum of Snoring
- Museum of Traditional Medicine
- Museum of Veterinary Medicine of the Royal Veterinary College
- Museum of the Cultural History of The Hand
- Museum of the History of Science
- Musée Dupuytren
- Musée Fragonard
- Musée Mécanique
- Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine
- Musée d'Histoire de la médecine et de la Pharmacie de Lyon
- Musée de l'Ecorché d'Anatomie
- Musée de la Médecine
- Musée des moulages Empereur Antonin
- Musée d’Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier
- Musée d’histoire de la Médecine de Toulouse
- Mütter Museum
- National Library of Medicine
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of Health and Medicine
- Naturalis
- Naturhistorische Museum Wien
- Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland
- Old Operating Theatre Museum
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Prelinger Library
- Proteus Gowanus
- Psychiatrie Museum Bern
- Radio Guy
- Reanimation Library
- Rose Melnick Medical Museum, Youngstown, OH
- Royal College of Physicians, London
- Sammlung Prinzhorn
- Semmelweis Museum
- Shanghai Natural History Museum
- Sigmund Freud Museum Wien
- Sir John Soane's Museum
- Siriraj Medical Museum
- St Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospital
- Steno Museum
- Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
- Surgeons' Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Sächsische Psychiatriemuseum
- Teylers Museum
- Thackray Medical Museum
- The Agricultural Museum, Cairo, Egypt
- The Center for Social Psychiatry Haina
- The Museum of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
- The Science Museum, London
- The Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine
- Tring Museum
- Tulane Museum of Natural History
- Universita di Cagliari, Le Cere Anatomische di Clemente Susini
- Virtual Museum of Ophthalmic Optics
- Vrolik
- Wagner Free Institute
- Warren Anatomical Museum
- Wellcome Center
- Württemberg Psychiatry Museum Zwiefalten
- edizinhistorische Museum am Mittelrhein
- hBethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum
- http://www.mvm.lv/
Medical Museums
- Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences - Birmingham
- Alfred Shryock Museum of Embryology - Loma Linda, California
- Anatomical Museum "Paolo Gorini" - Lodi
- Anatomical Museum "Seconda Università" - Naples
- Anatomical Museum "Taruffi" - Bologna
- Anatomical Museum of Leiden University Medical Center - Leiden
- Anatomical Museum of the University of Basel - Basel
- Anatomy Museum - Flinders
- Anatomy Museum University of Pavia - Pavia
- Anatomy Museum, University of Aberdeen - Aberdeen
- Andreas Syggros Museum of Dermatologic and Venereal Diseases - Athens
- Cere Anatomiche di Clemente Susini – Cagliari
- Departamento de Ciencias Morfológicas - Madrid
- Deutsches Hygiene-Museum - Dresden
- El Museo de Historia de la Medicina - Bogota
- Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum (Pathologisch-Anatomisches Bundesmuseum) - Vienna
- Gordon Museum - London
- Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology - Melbourne
- Hunterian Museum - Glasgow
- Hunterian Museum - London
- Josephinum - Vienna
- Kawasaki Medical University Museum of Modern Medical Education - Kawasaki
- Kunstkamera - St. Petersburg
- La Specola - Florence
- Le Musée d'Anatomie du Neubourg - Neubourg
- Medical Collection of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu - Tartu
- Moulagenmuseum - Zürich
- Musee Flaubert et d'Histoire du Medecine
- Musee Testut - Latarjet de medecine & d'anatomie - Lyon
- Museo Anatomico "Giovanni Tumiati" - Ferrara
- Museo Anatomico - Modena
- Museo Anatomico di Firenze - Florence
- Museo Cappella Sansevero - Napoli
- Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria - Rome
- Museo dell'Istituto di Anatomia Patologica - Padova
- Museo della Cere Anatomiche "Luigi Cattaneo" - Bologna
- Museo di Anatomia Patologica dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze - Florence
- Museo di Anatomia Umana (Museum of Human Anatomy) "Luigi Rolando" - Turin
- Museo di Anatomia Umana - Pisa
- Museo di Anatomia Umana Normale - Bologna
- Museum Anatomicum - Marburg
- Museum Boerhaave - Leiden
- Museum Gustavianum - Upsala, Sweden
- Museum für Medizin-Metereologie - Vienna
- Museum of Anatomical Waxes (Museo delle Cere Anatomiche) - Bologna
- Museum of Comparative Anatomy - Bologna
- Museum of Human Anatomy - Bologna
- Museum of Human Disease - Sydney
- Museum of Veterinary Pathology and Teratology - Bologna
- Musée Dupuytren - Paris
- Musée Fragonard - Alfort
- Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine - Paris
- Musée de la Médecine - Brussels
- Musée d’Anatomie - Montpellier
- Mütter Museum - Philadelphia
- National Museum of Health and Medicine - Washington, D. C.
- Obstetrical Museum "Giovan Antonio Galli"
- Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, Mexico City
- Semmelweis Museum - Budapest
- Surgeons' Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - Edinburgh
- The Anatomy Museum -New Zealand
- The Anatomy Museum of Naples Italy (il museo anatomico di napoli) - Napoli
- The Science Museum - The Science and Art of Medicine Galleries - London
- University of Malta Faculty of Medicine and Surgery - Malta
- Vrolik - Amsterdam
- W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum - New Zealand
- Warren Anatomical Museum - Boston
- Wellcome Collection - London
Curious Collections
- Bodyworlds
- Dennis Sever's House, 18 Folgate Street
- Exploratorium - San Francisco
- Leila's Hair Museum - Missouri
- Marsh's Free Museum - Long Beach, WA
- Museo delle Anime dei Defunti (o Purgatorio) - Rome
- Museum of Death
- Museum of Funeral Customs - Springfield
- Museum of Jurassic Technology - Culver City
- Museum of Mourning Photography and Memorial Practice
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices - New Delhi
- Museum of Sepulchral Culture, Kassel, DE.
- Museum of Snroing - Langenholzen
- Museum of the Cultural History of The Hand - Wolnzach
- Musée Bizarre, Rieden/Obersiggenthal
- Musée des Grenouilles, Estavayer-le-Lac
- Musée Mécanique - San Francisco
- Pitt Rivers Museum - Oxford
- Proteus Gowanus - New York
- Sir John Soane's Museum - London
- Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
- Teylers Museum - Haarlem
Natural History Museums
- Academy of Natural Sciences - Philadelphia
- American Museum of Natural History - New York
- Bell Museum of Natural History - Minneapolis
- Berlin Museum for Natural History - Berlin
- Biological Museum - Stockholm
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History - Cleveland
- Grant Museum - London
- Harvard Museum of Natural History - Boston
- La Specola Zoologica - Florence
- Natural History Museum - London
- Natural History Museum Bern - Bern
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles
- Natural History Museum Vienna - Vienna
- Naturalis - Leiden
- Shanghai Natural History Museum - Shanghai
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Washington, D.C.
- Tring Museum - Hertfordshire
- Tulane Museum of Natural History
- Uppsala University Evolution Museum - Uppsala
- Wagner Free Institute - Philadelphia
Medical History Museums
- Apothekenmuseum “Steinernen Haus”
- Berlin Medical Historical Museum of the Charité
- Cape Medical Museum
- Chimborazo Medical Museum
- Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum
- Das Brukenthal Museum
- Das Medizinhistorische Museum am Mittelrhein
- Das Pharmazie-Historische Museum Basel
- Deutsche Apotheken Museum
- Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ingolstadt
- Dittrick Medical History Center
- German Epilepsy Museum
- Great Ormond Street Hosptial For Children
- Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
- Institut für Medizingeschichte, Bern
- Jikei Medical University in Tokyo
- Leprosy Museum
- Leprosy Museum - St. George's Hospital
- Litauisches Museum für Geschichte der Medizin der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Vilnius
- Medical History Museum in Gothenburg
- Medical Museum at Nesstofa
- Medicinhistoriska Museet
- Medizinhistorische Sammlung des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Medizin
- Medizinhistorisches Museum der Universität Zürich
- Melbourne Medical History Museum
- Mobile Medical Museum
- Museo de Historia de la Medicina y de la Cirugía “Vicente Aníbal Risolía”
- Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya
- Museum Boerhaave
- Museum für Medizin-Metereologie
- Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch
- Museum of Funeral Customs
- Museum of Health, Turkey
- Museum of Medicine and Public Health - part of the National Medical Library, Prag
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Museum of the History of Science
- Museum of Traditional Medicine
- Museum of Veterinary Medicine of the Royal Veterinary College
- Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine
- Musée d'Histoire de la médecine et de la Pharmacie de Lyon
- Musée d’histoire de la Médecine de Toulouse
Psychiatric Museums
Online Museums
Bibliography
- Anatomical Venuses: The Aethetics of Anatomical Modeling in 18th- and 19th-Century Europe
- The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
- Anatomy Acts: How We Come to Know Ourselves
- Art of Death
- Artificial Kingdom, The: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience
- Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery
- Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology
- Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
- Cures and Curiosities: Inside the Wellcome Library
- The Denial of Death
- Devices of Wonder
- Dream Anatomy
- Ebenbilder. Kopien von Körpern - Modelle des Menschen
- Ephemeral Bodies
- Encyclopaedia Anatomica
- Finders, Keepers
- Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
- Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age
- Invention of Hysteria
- The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
- The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories
- Looking at Death
- Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks
- Manifesting Medicine: Bodies and Machines
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder
- Mark Dion
- The Monk
- "Morbid Curiosity":The Decline and Fall of the Popular Anatomical Museum
- A Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive...
- The Mutter Museum
- Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs,
- A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
- Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media
- The Phantom Museum
- The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine
- The Secret History
- Sexual Visions: Images Of Gender In Science And Medicine...
- Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America
- A Social History of Dying
- Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters
- Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body...
- Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde
- Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture of Natural History Museums
- Suspended Animation: Six Essays on the Preservatiuon of Bodily Parts
- To Die No More
- A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
- The Wandering Womb : A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs About Woman
- Weird Europe: A Guide to Bizarre, Macabre, and Just Plain Weird Sights
Authors
Filmography
- Anatomie
- Death by Design
- Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality
- Freaks
- Jan Svankmajer (anything by)
- Le Vampire (Jean Painleve)
- Lyrical Nitrate (Lyrisch Nitraat)
- News About Cells
- Proteus
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Doctor and the Devils
- The Elephant Man
- The Films of the Brothers Quay
- The Haunting
- The Innocents
- The Kingdom
- The Phantom Museum
- The Short Films of David Lynch
Organizations
- Ars Medica
- Art & Science Collaborations
- Art Sci Chicago
- Art Sci UCLA
- ArtScience.org
- ASCI : Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
- Association of Medical Illustrators
- Centre for Death and Society, Bath, England
- Centre for Forensic and Medical Art
- European Association of the Museums of History of Medical Sciences
- Ingenious
- International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Leonardo: Art, Science, and Technology
- Medical Museums Association
- Medisch Erfgoed (Medical Heritage, Netherlands)
- New York Academy of Medicine
- Science & the Arts
- SybioticA
- The Vesalius Trust
- UCLA Art Sci Center
- Wellcome Trust Sciart Program
Contact
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- Online Exhibitions
Pages
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- Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine
- Design and the Elastic Mind
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- Dream Anatomy
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- Nineteenth Century Images of Albinism
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- Revealing Bodies at The Exploratorium
- The Anatomy of Gender
- The Art of the Model Maker
- The Body Revealed: Renaissance and Baroque Anatomical Illustration
- The Burns Archive
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- Thanatos.net
- The Anatomy of Art
- The Collected
- The Condenser Magazine
- The Eyes Have It
- The Great Coney Island Spectacularium
- The Lord Geekington
- The Mouth and The Knife
- The Popular Uncanny
- The Red Heart Cult
- The Richard Balzer Collection of Arcane Media
- The Teratologist
- The Victorian Peeper
- The Wildgoose Memorial Library
- The Zymoglyphic Museum
- The Zymoglyphic Museum Curator's Blog
- Vintage Photos
- Vintage Pulchritude
- Virtual Dime Museum
- Wellcome Library Blog
- Who Killed Bambi?
- Wired Science
- Wonders and Marvels
- Wurzeltod
Image Resources
Museum and Library Blogs
- A Repository for Bottled Monsters: National Museum of Health and Medicine
- Barts Pathology Museum
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Biomedicine on Display: Medical Museion @ University of Copenhagen
- Books, Health and History: The New York Academy of Medicine
- Circulating Now: The National Library of Medicine, USA
- Dittrick Museum
- Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Curator's Blog
- Rose Melnick Medical Museum
- Rosenbach Museum and Library
- Teyler Net: The Network of the Teylers Museum
- Wellcome Library Blog
Museums and Collections on Flickr
- Banjo Seth's Extraordinary Museum of the Wondrous!
- Brooklyn Museum
- Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Historical Notes from OHSU
- History of Medicine Collection at University of Buffalo, by Tyler Love
- Indiana Medical History Museum
- Library of Congress
- Manchester Museum
- Morbid Anatomy
- Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
- Museum of Wales
- National Museum of Health and Medicine I
- National Museum of Health and Medicine II (Favorites of the Archive Staff)
- National Museum of Health and Medicine III
- New York Public Library
- Post Mortem Photography
- Powerhouse Museum
- Stanford Medicine's Photostream
- The Post Mortem Archive
- The Smithsonian Institution
- University of Michigan Dentistry Library
- VCU Tompkins-McCaw Library Special Collections'
- Wellcome Images
- Winterthur Museum
Publishers
Purveyors
- Alex Peck Medical Antiques
- American Science and Surplus
- Aria
- Bone Clones
- Carolina Biological Supply
- Collectie L. J. Mennink
- Curious Science
- Darr
- Deyrolle
- Evolution Nature Store
- Finch and Co.
- Fleaglass
- George Glazer Gallery
- Get Stuffed
- Heir Antiques
- Historia Antiques
- History of Science
- John Derian Company
- Kunstkammer Georg Laue
- Librairie Alain Brieux
- Maxilla and Mandible
- Nautilus Antique Scientific Instruments and Old Oddities
- Necromance
- Obscura Antiques and Oddities
- Obsolete
- Paxton Gate
- Phisick Antique Medical Collection
- Ptak Science Books
- Radio Guy
- Ryan Matthew Oddities
- Scientific Curiosities Thomas Sandberg
- Skulls Inlimited International
- Staetshuys Antiquairs B.V. Meulendijks & Schul
- Tear Drop Memories
- The Bone Room
- The Museum Of Jurassic Technology Shop
- Transmission Atelier Inc.
- Van Leest Antiek
- Wunderkammer Melbourne
Magazines
Artists of the Past
- Albrecht Dürer
- Alfred Kubin
- Arnold Böcklin
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Balthus
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Ernst Haeckel
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Khnopff
- Francisco Goya
- Franz Stuck
- Fritz Goro
- Félicien Rops
- George Frederic Watts
- Gustav Klimt
- Gustave Moreau
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Henry Fuseli
- Hieronymus Bosch
- James Ensor
- John William Waterhouse
- Lam Qua
- Matthias Grünewald
- Max Ernst
- Odilon Redon
- Paul Delvaux
- Salvador Dalí
- The Pre-Raphaelites
- The Symbolists
- The Vienna Secession
- William Blake
- Étienne-Jules Marey
Contemporary(ish) Artists
- Alex Kanevsky
- Angela Singer
- Ben Kruisdijk
- Berlinde de Bruycker
- Beverly Ress
- Brian Calting
- Catherine Truman
- Chantal Pollier
- Chloe Piene
- Cindy Rehm
- Craig LaRotonda
- Damien Hirst
- Dan Estabrook
- David Altmejd
- Diane Arbus
- Diane Bertolo
- Dino Valls
- Edward Gorey
- Eleanor Crook
- Elizabeth McGrath
- Fernando Vicente
- GF Newland
- Géza Szöllős
- Harald Koeck
- Herbert Pfostl
- Ian Goulden
- James Mundie
- James Walsh
- Jan Fabre
- Jane Wildgoose
- Jason Briggs
- Jeff Love
- Jeff Wyckoff
- Jessica Joslin
- Jo Ann Kaplan
- Jodie Carey
- Joel-Peter Witkin
- John Byrd
- John Isaacs
- Julia deVille
- June Glasson
- Justine Gasquet
- Karen Ingham
- Kate Street
- Kerry Kate
- Kristen Alvanson
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- Lida Drummond
- Louise Bourgeois
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- Marilene Oliver
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- Richard Russell
- Robert Quint
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- Sarah Sudhoff
- Saul Chernick
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3 comments:
Particularly disturbing is the fact that the photograph was posed in a studio.
Particularly disturbing is the fact that the "autopsy" was posed in a photographer's studio. Notice the painted bookcases, a false backdrop.
These 'anatomical autopsy' photographs seem to have been something of a fashion. I've seen three different versions (including this one which appears in Chas Addams' peculiar 'Dear Dead Days' compendium, if memory serves).
They all appear to be riffs on the same basic theme - an older, bearded 'surgeon' (presumably) about to slice up some naked deceased nubile.
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