anatomy

Studies of the coronary vessels and valves of the heart, The Royal Collection (c) 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Art Review: Leonardo Da Vinci – Anatomist @ Queen’s Gallery

Anatomical drawings that highlight the genius of the archetypal Renaissance man.

The original Call My Bluff. Very beige.

Call My Bluffalo @ Grant Museum

Know your slippery dick from your booby?

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Review: Skin @ Wellcome Collection

They’ve probed the heart and inspected the bones. Now, the Wellcome Collection turn their magpie attentions to the body’s most visible component: the skin. With the usual mix of science, art and medicine, Skin charts the dissection, decoration, disease, decay and diverse dermatological details through …

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From The Grant Museum: The Mystery Of The Quagga’s Leg

In the third of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Grant Museum. Here we see the skeleton of a female quagga (Equus quagga quagga). This extinct form of zebra lived …

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Review: Exquisite Bodies @ Wellcome Collection

‘Come and see a cabinet filled with hairy, infected groins, each one disfigured with its own strain of oozing canker,’ begins the press release. Not the official press release, of course, but the one we’re mentally composing as we tour the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition. …