Tag: Exhibitions

• The Punished Suicide

  Ivan Cenzi brings a strange story of suicide to Death and the Maiden this week. One beginning with sorrow and ending in spectacle. It’s 1863 and on hearing of a young girl’s suicide, anatomist Lodovico Brunetti requests her body be brought to him for experiments. What evolves from his casting and preservation work is unexpected.…

  Death and the Maiden

  24/10/2016

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  Anatomy, Art, Bizzarro Bazar, Creation, Death, Exhibitions, History, Human Life, Human Remains, Italy, Ivan Cenzi, Medical, Morgangni Museum of Anatomical Pathology, Museum, Padova, Paris, Photography, Preservation, Religion, Suicide, Taboo, The Punished Suicide, Wax

• Skeletons in My Life’s Closet

  Jelena Bekvalac is a Curator of Human Osteology at the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London. As a life course becoming a museum curator and working with human skeletal remains was not one that she carefully planned. From exciting opportunities in London to excavations in Jordan and Prague Jelena takes us on a journey down her fascinating…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/06/2015

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  Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Career, Curator, Deadmaidens, Death, Excavation, Exhibitions, Experiences, Human Remains, London, Museum, Museum of London, Osteology, Research, Skeletal Remains, Skeletons, Travel, Wellcome Trust