Medicine
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Foreign Bodies unites swallowed swords and bicycles from UCL vaults
Curated from across University College London's four museums, a display of surgical curiosities and ancient artefacts ponders all things alien and inorganic to our bodies.
Curator's Choice: Gill Scott on bone saws and amputation knives at the Great North Museum
The gruesome details of Barber Surgeon instruments from the current Tales of Antiquarian Adventure exhibition in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Cartographies of Life and Death: John Snow and Disease Mapping in Soho
Smelly cartography by Bompas and Parr and a cocktail bar based around the water pump cholera was once pinpointed to in a multi-site show honouring a medical pioneer.
Museums at Night 2013: Andrew Lane's Lost Worlds at Barts Pathology Museum
Andrew Lane, the author of the Young Sherlock Holmes series, is heading to the wondrous Bart's Pathology Museum for a special reading for Museums at Night.
The best museum or gallery exhibition of 2012: Culture24 writers make their choice
From Hockney at the RA and Vodou in Nottingham to Brains at The Wellcome Collection, Culture24 writers choose their top exhibition of 2012.
London's Wellcome Collection unveils ambitious £17.5m redevelopment plan
Wellcome Collection has unveiled a major £17.5m development project, creating new galleries and spaces to meet overwhelming visitor numbers.
In Pictures: Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men at the Museum of London
Take a closer look at the internal organs, wax models and skulls making up the Museum of London's major new exhibition celebrating the age of resurrectionists.
Museum of London welcomes Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men
Six years ago, Museum of London Archaeology carried out a major excavation on a burial ground at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. A new display reveals the results.
16th century dissections revisited in Royal College of Physicians' Curious Anatomys display
Tables used in 17th century academic dissections at the University of Padua - the world's oldest teaching ampitheatre still in use - go on show in London.
Anatomy of an Athlete – Elite Sport, Surgery and Medical Art at the Hunterian Museum
A pair of Team GB canoeists who struck gold after the exhibition began feature in a show of medical art at the Hunterian which reveals pioneering surgical techniques.
Freud's head, cat skeletons and Marilyn Manson in Florence Nightingale Museum's Bone
A show at the Florence Nightingale Museum features a skull-shaped candle made for Marilyn Manson's wedding and an apothecary jar containing a syphilis-infected bone.
Vivienne Westwood shoes, Olympic athletes and false teeth look Superhuman at Wellcome
The major summer show at the Wellcome Collection in London looks at human enhancements across the centuries, from prosthetics and pills to phones and plastic surgery.
The Bluecoat welcomes all things Niet Normaal as DadaFest 2012 opens in Liverpool
The festival of disability and deaf arts returns to Liverpool with a major exhibition at the Bluecoat, an artist-in-residence at the Walker and film screenings at FACT.
Opus Pericardium sci-art project uses ECG data to translate rhythm of human heart into music
Artist Sarah Harvey works in collaboration with composers and scientists to create audio soundscapes of the human heart using data from electrocardiogram readings in London.
Replica skeleton of "Elephant Man" Joseph Merrick appears at Royal London Museum
Using 3D bone scans as part of new DNA research on the The Elephant Man, University of London experts are allowing the public to see an exact replica of Joseph Merrick's skeleton.
