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Morbid Anatomy Coming to Chicago: “A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum,” The Chicago Cultural Center, Thursday, May 3, 6 PM

Posted on May 6th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments








For those of you in and about Chicago, I would love to see you this Thursday, May 3, at The Chicago Cultural Center where I will be giving a lecture entitled “A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum” as part of a series of events supplementing the amazing looking  Morbid Curiosity exhibition. The images above–drawn from my exhibitions The Secret Museum and Anatomical Theatre–constitute a tiny sampling of the many images I will be showing in the presentation.

Full details follow; very much hope very much to see you there.

A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum
An Illustrated Lecture by Joanna Ebenstein
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The Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street Chicago, IL 60602
Thursday, May 3, 2012
6 o’clock PM

Abounding with images and insight, Ms. Ebenstein’s lecture will introduce you to the Medical Museum and its curious denizens, from the Anatomical Venus to the Slashed Beauty, the allegorical fetal skeleton tableau to the taxidermied bearded lady, the flayed horseman of the apocalypse to the three fetuses dancing a jig. Ebenstein will discuss the history of medical modeling, survey the great artists of the genre, and examine the other death-related arts and amusements which made up the cultural landscape at the time that these objects were originally created, collected, and exhibited.

Joanna Ebenstein is a New York-based artist and independent researcher. She runs the popular Morbid Anatomy Blog and the related Morbid Anatomy Library, where her privately held cabinet of curiosities and research library are made available by appointment. Her work has been shown and published internationally, and she has lectured at museums and conferences around the world. For more information, visit http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com

You can find out more by clicking here.

Images top to bottom, as drawn from my recent photo exhibitions The Secret Museum and Anatomical Theatre:

  1. “Anatomical Venus” Wax wodel with human hair and pearls in rosewood and Venetian glass case, “La Specola” (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, Italy, Probably modeled by Clemente Susini (around 1790)
  2. “Slashed Beauty” Wax wodel with human hair and pearls in rosewood and Venetian glass case, “La Specola” (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, Italy, Probably modeled by Clemente Susini (around 1790)
  3. “Anatomical Venuses,” Wax Models with human hair in rosewood and Venetian glass cases,The Josephinum, Workshop of Clemente Susini of Florence circa 1780s, Vienna, Austria
  4. The Mütter Museum : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pathological model; 19th Century?
  5. Wax Model of Eye Surgery, Musée Orfila, Paris. Courtesy Université Paris Descartes
  6. Wax Anatomical Models in Rosewood and Venetian Glass Boxes, The Josephinum, Workshop of Clemente Susini of Florence circa 1780s, Vienna, Austria
  7. Wax moulages; Probably by Carl Henning (1860-1917) or Theodor Henning (1897-1946); Early 20th Century; Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum): Vienna, Austria, Austria
  8. Plaster Models in Pathological Cabinet, The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  9. Skeleton and hand models for “la médecine opératoire” Musée Orfila, Paris. Courtesy Université Paris Descartes

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Disaster Has Hit The Morbid Anatomy Library!

Posted on April 13th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments
















Tis’ a sad day indeed.

Some of you might already have already heard, but last Friday night, the building in which The Morbid Anatomy Library is located suffered a small artwork-related fire. The fire was quickly extinguished, but not before The Library and its collection of books, artworks, and artifacts suffered severe water damage from the building’s fire sprinklers. Stay tuned for news about a benefit party to raise money for rebuilding the library, but, in the meantime, here are some photos of the water-logged chaos we are digging ourselves out of. I should mention, the damage could have been much, much worse, and I am very grateful we got off as easy as we did. Still, if any of you are interested in making a monetary donation to help the collection, simply click on the “donate here” button on the right side of this blog. If you are interested in donating books or artifacts–or time and/or talent for the benefit!–please email me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.

I would also like to send out a very special heartfelt thank you to G. F. Newland, Wythe Marschall, Ethan Gould, Grace Baxter, Emi Brady, Sasha Chavchavadze, PK Ramani, Tammy Pittman, Benjamin Warnke, Aaron Beebe, Lado Pochkhua, Ted Enik, the fellows from Curious Matter, and everyone else who for pitched in to make this disaster so much less of a one than it could have been, while I was far from home and unable to help at all.

Ok, off to assess the damage in greater detail. Thanks to everyone, and more to come!

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The Great Morbid Anatomy Library Flood of 2012: List of Destroyed Books Now Posted

Posted on April 10th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments


Thanks so very much to all of you for your outpouring of support, donations, and offers to help in the aftermath of The Great Morbid Anatomy Flood of 2012 (more details on that here). Many of you have asked to see a list of those books lost, in the interest of ordering or sending particular books for the library; I have created a special Amazon wish list that contains all books lost, and will ship directly to the library; you can check it out by clicking here.

For those of you who would like to mail books directly, our mailing list is:

Joanna Ebenstein
c/o The Morbid Anatomy Library
543 Union Street #1E
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Thanks so much, again, for all your support, and please save the date for an upcoming benefit party to take place Saturday May 12. Please contact me if you’d like to donate objects or artworks for a silent auction, or talent for performances, or labor!

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Morbid Anatomy Library Open Hours This Weekend!

Posted on March 17th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments


This weekend–February 25th and 26th–the Morbid Anatomy Library (seen above) will be hosting open, no-appointment-necessary drop in hours from 1 to 6. So feel free to drop in for a perusal of the stacks and to meet our latest addition.

For more about the Morbid Anatomy Library and for directions and other such information, click here.

Photo of The Library by Shannon Taggart

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