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Exquisite Bodies
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Also on at Wellcome Collection
- Miracles and Charms, Until Sun Feb 26
- Infinitas Gracias: Mexican Miracle Paintings, Until Sun Feb 26
- Here Comes Good Health!, Feb 22-Jun 3
- Wellcome Collection,
- Brains, Mar 29-Jun 17
- Superhuman, Jul 19-Oct 16
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- 25 Brook Street, Handel House Museum
- A Hundred and Sixty Years of Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth Museum
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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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Founder Sir Henry Wellcome, a pioneering 19th-century pharmacist and entrepreneur, amassed a vast and idiosyncratic collection of implements and...
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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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