The original Bodyworlds
"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Feb 20, 20151 min read
Vroliking good fun
As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Dec 12, 20141 min read
Best candle ever!
Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 31, 20141 min read
Skull with a smile
One of the most engaging exhibits at the Oxford Museum of Natural History is this skull. It is a juvenile Western Gorilla, looking out of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 18, 20141 min read
Wellcome, wellcome, wellcome
... to the Wellcome Collection. A wonderful way to spend an afternoon. And actually my favourite part were the audio extracts, one of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 28, 20142 min read
Ikea manual for reassembly required
A late write up from a trip to the wonderful gem, Grant's Museum in London. Part of UCL, hidden somewhere near the Petrie Museum, I was...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Dec 13, 20131 min read
SOS - Save our skulls!
Do yourself a favour. Rather than receive the same old Christmas jumper and socks this year, get your relatives to buy you a skull! There...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 18, 20131 min read
More weird and wonderful
Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 11, 20131 min read
The weird and wonderful
I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Sep 13, 20132 min read
Witch in a bottle
(Image courtesy of Jack's Adventures in Museumland. I don't know if this is his photo, but I can't get similar quality because this was...
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