Become a Docent at the Morbid Anatomy Museum!
Interested in being a part of the Morbid Anatomy Museum? If not, why not consider becoming a volunteer docent? Although this is an unpaid position, being a museum docent is an excellent addition to...
View ArticleKrampus Party with Alpine Village and DJ Vince Clarke! Free Holiday Fair!...
Gruß vom Krampus and Üdvözlet a Krampusztól! To celebrate this special time of year, we hope you'll join us for our Annual Krampus Costume Party on Saturday, December 20th! This year's iteration will...
View ArticleSeeking Pull Down Screen for Morbid Anatomy Museum!
The Morbid Anatomy Museum seeks a pull-down screen for our events space. If anyone has one they are willing to loan long term or gift, please send an email to joanna [at] morbidanatomymuseum.org! Thank...
View ArticleHoliday Fair! Krampus Party with DJ Vince Clarke! The Ballad of Ruby Ridge!...
We have lots of exciting upcoming events this week and beyond at theMorbid Anatomy Museum.Today--Sunday, December 14th--is the final day of our annual free Holiday Gift Fair. Here you will find...
View ArticleMerry Christmas and Happy Krampusnacht From Your Friends at Morbid Anatomy!
Merry Christmas from Morbid Anatomy with St. Nicholas and Krampus, his Eastern European, birch-switch-beating, lolling-tongued, cloven-hoofed, child-punishing side kick. In places such as Germany and...
View ArticleCollector's Cabinet Exhibition! Art of Mourning Closing Party! The Scholarly...
Happy Holidays! We have lots of exciting upcoming news and events to announce!First off, we are delighted to announce that our current exhibition,The Art of Mourning, has been extended until Friday,...
View ArticleSupport Morbid Anatomy with your End of Year Giving!
2014 has been a remarkable year for Morbid Anatomy, with the launch of the Morbid Anatomy Museum and our critically acclaimed inaugural exhibition "The Art of Mourning;" the release of The Morbid...
View ArticleHappy New Year from Your Friends at Morbid Anatomy!
"A strange holiday new year's greeting with two costumed girls standing in front of a fountain holding an unfurled fan that reads 'A Happy New Year', 1920." via Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images.
View ArticleFashionable Mourning with The Metropolitan Museum of Art! Tottenham Ayatollah...
We at the Morbid Anatomy Museumare delighted to announce scores of wonderful eventstaking place in the weeks and months to come.First off, we are celebrating the extension of ourArt of...
View ArticleThe Curiously Anatomized Bodies of John Arderne: Guest Post by Michael...
The incomparable Michael Sappol--author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies, curator of Dream Anatomy, and historian at the National Library of Medicine--recently traveled to Sweden where he encountered the...
View ArticleWalter Potter Two-Faced Kitten in First US Engagement! Collector's Cabinet...
Image: Two-faced kitten prepared by the famously eccentric 19th century taxidermist Walter Potter; from the collection of Carol Holzner. Photo: Chris Bradley We at Morbid Anatomy have lots of exciting...
View Article“Side Show” Exhibition and Event Series at the Yale School of Art: January 13...
News of this exciting new exhibition and event series which opens tomorrow, January 13th, just in from our friend and curator of this event Lisa Kereszi; following is the press release and, event...
View Article"Looking At Death:" A Conversation With Barbara Norfleet : Guest Post by...
We Die and See Beauty Reign by Cristina Preda on GroovesharkFollowing is a guest post in which one of our beloved Morbid Anatomy docents, Cristina Preda, delves deeper into one of her favorite books in...
View ArticleALERT: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Will be Closed January 17-23 for Install of...
Apologies, but the Morbid Anatomy Museum will be CLOSED from January 17-23 for the installation of our new exhibition "Collector's Cabinet," which will open to the public on Saturday January 24th...
View ArticleVesalius: Imagining the Body Exhibition, Leuven, Belgium: A Guest Post by...
Following is another guest post by our good friend Michael Sappol--author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies, curator of Dream Anatomy, and historian at the National Library of Medicine--about an excellent...
View ArticleDeath, Science, Sexology: Interview by Mark Dery of Morbid Anatomy Museum...
Morbid Anatomy Museum Provocateur in Residence Mark Dery recently interviewed our creative director Joanna Ebenstein about the importance of books in her life and in the greater Morbid Anatomy project....
View ArticleOh Santo Niño Doctor! A Guest Post by Entomologist in Residence Daisy Tainton
Following is a guest post by our entomologist in residence Daisy Tainton about one of the most enigmatic vernacular saints we encountered in Mexico: the lavishly eyelashed Santo Niño Doctor!Oh Santo...
View ArticleCollector's Cabinet Exhibition and Preview Party! The Anatomy of Hysteria!...
We have exciting news and many new events to announce!Fist, please note that the exhibition space will be closed through Saturday January 24th as we install our next exhibition The Collector's...
View ArticleHoliday Fair! Krampus Party with DJ Vince Clarke! The Ballad of Ruby Ridge!...
We have lots of exciting upcoming events this week and beyond at theMorbid Anatomy Museum.Today--Sunday, December 14th--is the final day of our annual free Holiday Gift Fair. Here you will find...
View ArticleSeeking Pull Down Screen for Morbid Anatomy Museum!
The Morbid Anatomy Museum seeks a pull-down screen for our events space. If anyone has one they are willing to loan long term or gift, please send an email to joanna [at] morbidanatomymuseum.org! Thank...
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