Presented By: Museum Studies Program
Exquisite Corpses: Our Dialogue with the Dead in Museums
It’s Alive! Re-Discovering Institutions of Living Collections
This presentation explores visitors’ reactions to fascinating and disquieting post mortem human imagery by examining anatomical collections and ownership of the dead. Human remains exhibited at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia form a backdrop to this dialogue and illustrate the contradictory and challenging messages anatomical displays convey to visitors.
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