We’ll be going to see this one.
Britain’s newest national museum – dedicated to medicine and its impact on life – will open its doors this week to reveal some of the strangest artefacts connected with human anatomy: a blade from a French guillotine, a robot used in the sequencing of the human genome, an Andy Warhol painting of the heart, a Chinese torture chair and a 14th-century Peruvian mummy.
Opens June 21st, 2007. London.
Full article at the Observer
Wellcome Collection
Damien DeBarra was born in the late 20th century and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. He now lives in London, England where he shares a house with four laptops, three bikes and a large collection of chairs.
The phrase “…Rag-and-bone dealers…” is especially fascinating.