Comments on: Exquisite Bodies

By: JayKay

JayKay — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:26:36 +0000

On the subject of weird and wax… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler

By: DippyNikki

DippyNikki — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:12:33 +0000

reminds me of ron mueck, now his stuff is shocking

By: Ferrari Filly

Ferrari Filly — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:09:10 +0000

I went to see this last Saturday. Not as gruesome as I thought it was going to be. The two headed calf was strangely fascinating. Loved the chastity belt in the Medicine Man exhibition, but what was with the “flower” shaped poo hole?

By: ReliegiousMarie

ReliegiousMarie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:12:43 +0000

Darn i want to see that too…and would love to make wax works instead of sculpting which takes a Looooong time, that clip of how to wax looks pretty easy but then, i bet wax is bloody expensive to work with…

By: Ms G

Ms G — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:54:13 +0000

And you can become one of those exquisite bodies! Anatomy still needs bodies … real bodies (dead ofcourse) ……..

By: roz

roz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:05 +0000

wow, plasticine porters!

By: flapjack

flapjack — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:51:36 +0000

Visited their branch in Old Holbern which houses genuine specimens for medical students. Not sure how accessible the collection is these days as I was just a fine art student at the time. Our group of art students were posing as medical undergrads but whether they would have let us in if they knew we weren’t I don’t know.
Upstairs is standard cadavre disections, mostly preserved in formaldehyde. I was morbidly intrigued by the fact that formaldehyde disolves blackheads, though I have no plans to use it as part of my skincare regime any time soon. It left some pretty big craters in the nose of one specimen.
Downstairs is Victorian specimens and the boundary between science and freakshow is well and truly blurred.

By: Norbs

Norbs — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:48:07 +0000

I went to see this at the weekend – it was astonishing. Do go upstairs and visit the rest of the galleries about the development of medicine (and you can do a bit of colouring-in in the last room). Also, the Wellcome Collection has an unexpectedly nice cafe attached where they do a most acceptalbe range of muffins (I recommend the apple and cinamon) and hot beverages – oh and a Blackwells’ bookshop where my wife bought a book called “Servants of the Supernatural: The night side of Victorian nature” – but she is strange anyway.

By: Tash

Tash — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:32:23 +0000

disgusting but at the same time amazing!