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Exquisite Bodies

This event has now finished Until Oct 18 2009 Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2BE Full details & map

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Subtitled 'Or a curious and grotesque history of the anatomical model', this exhibition reveals how, in Victorian Britain and Europe, collections of anatomical models were used to titillate as well as teach the public. During the nineteenth century, museums of anatomical models became popular sightseeing attractions, enabling visitors to learn about the human body through displays that combined serious science with an element of fairground theatricality. The show presents accurate specimens used for teaching, as well as models destined for less salubrious displays to examine Victorian attitudes to sex, disease and death.

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Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE

Wellcome Collection

Founder Sir Henry Wellcome, a pioneering 19th-century pharmacist and entrepreneur, amassed a vast and idiosyncratic collection of implements and...

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Transport Euston/Euston Square 

Telephone

020 7611 2222

http://www.wellcomecollection.org

Galleries: 10am-6pm Tue-Sat, until 10pm Thur, 11am-6pm Sun (closed Mon except bank hols). Library: 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, 10am-8pm Thur, 10am-4pm Sat

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