The Phantom Museum And Henry Wellcome's Collection Of Medical Curiosities

The Phantom Museum And Henry Wellcome's Collection Of Medical Curiosities by Hildi Hawkins & Danielle Olsen


ISBN
9781861976185
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224

New and innovative writing inspired by the medical, scientific and sometimes downright extraordinary contents of Henry Wellcome's remarkable museum.

The businessman and philanthropist Sir Henry Wellcome was fascinated by anthropology and the history of medicine. By the time he died in 1936, he had built up one of the world's largest and most extraordinary museum collections. Estimated to be five times the size of the Louvre, his collection is now scattered among more than a hundred institutions including the Wellcome Trust, the British Museum and the Science Museum.

The objects Wellcome brought together range from the ancient to the magical, from the religious to the scientific. Beautiful, mysterious or bizarre, they all illuminate the history of human beings and their bodies.

This book offers some personal responses to this vast but little-known collection. Playful and thought-provoking contributions from AS Byatt, Tobias Hill, Peter Blegvad, the Brothers Quay and Hari Kunzru combine text and images, fact and fiction, comment and imagination to consider how objects can be read depending on who views them and when.

Published to coincide with a major new exhibition of Wellcome's collection, this is an enjoyable and lasting introduction to its wonders.
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