Museum — Morbid Anatomy
WEBThe Morbid Anatomy Museum (2014-2016) was a non-profit space founded by Joanna Ebenstein, Tracy Hurley Martin, Colin Dickey, Tonya Hurley, Laetitia Barbier, Evan Michelson and Aaron Beebe in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.The museum was an expansion of Ebenstein's long-running project, the Morbid Anatomy Blog and Library. The museum building had a lecture and event space, a ...
Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop
WEBThe Morbid Anatomy Library houses hundreds of books and morbid artifacts from around the world on topic spanning art and death, death and culture, the history of medicine, medical museums, anatomical art, "sexology," collectors and collecting, taxidermy, and more. It also hosts a giftsho
Morbid Anatomy Museum | About Us
WEBAbout Us. The Morbid Anatomy Museum is a new 4,200 square foot non-profit institution dedicated to the celebration and exhibition of artifacts, histories and ideas which fall between the cracks of high and low culture, death and beauty, and disciplinary divides.
audio and video - Morbid Anatomy Museum
WEBA series of short films by Ronni Thomas (Director of The Midnight Archive, Morbid Anatomy filmmaker in residence). To view them on the Morbid Anatomy YouTube channel, click here. On this podcast, host Molly McBride Jacobson of Columbia University interviews event hosts, experts, and eccentrics on ...
About — Morbid Anatomy
WEBMorbid Anatomy was created as a blog by Joanna Ebenstein in support of a photo exhibition in 2007. Since then, it has expanded to include the Morbid Anatomy Library, lectures, exhibitions, classes, spectacles, symposia, field trips, books, parties, and films.. It is best known for its brief incarnation as the critically acclaimed Morbid Anatomy Museum (2013-2016), co founded by Ebenstein with ...
Morbid Anatomy Museum | audio and video
WEBaudio and video Morbid Anatomy Museum Presents Film Series. A series of short films by Ronni Thomas (Director of The Midnight Archive, Morbid Anatomy filmmaker in residence).To view them on the Morbid Anatomy YouTube channel, click here.. Morbid Anatomy Transmission Podcasts
Exhibitions, Publications, & Films — Morbid Anatomy
WEBBridging Two Worlds: The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead, Green-Wood Cemetery, 2018 (Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier) Woven Strands: The Art of Human Hairwork, Mütter Museum, 2017-18 (Produced by Morbid Anatomy, curated by Evan Michelson and John Whitenight) The Power ...
Morbid Anatomy Museum | exhibitions
WEBexhibitions. Permanent Collection The Morbid Anatomy Library. Current Temporary Exhibition House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, and Ethnographical Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum (Berlin, 1869-1922) Curated by Ryan Mathew Cohn of TV’s “Oddities,” with introductory text by Dr. Peter M. McIsaac, Professor of German and Museum Studies at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Blog — Morbid Anatomy
WEBMorbid Anatomy began in 2007 as a blog, created by Joanna Ebenstein to support her photographic exhibition Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of the Body, Disease and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World.The blog is filled with short, heavily illustrated articles surveying the interstices of arts and medicine, death and culture.
Morbid Anatomy Museum | The Morbid Anatomy Library
WEBThe Morbid Anatomy Library. Founded in 2008, The Morbid Anatomy Library is a research library and collection making available thousands of books, photographs, artworks, pieces of ephemera, and artifacts relating to medical museums, anatomical art, collectors and collecting, cabinets of curiosity, the history of medicine, death and society, natural history, arcane media, and curiosity and ...
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