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The Museum of Skeletons
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Who’s afraid of a few skeletons? We share bony objects and skeletal artworks from galleries, archives, libraries & museums #openGLAM

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Pierre-Félix Wiesener: The Ride of a Warrior Ghost (ca. 1850)

Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Richard Lewis Hillstrom Fund – Detail

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drawing: a skeleton on a horse with a woman in its arm is chased by monks with torches
January 27, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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Detail from: Pedro de Camprobin: El caballero y la muerte, 17. Jhd., Hospital de la Santa Caridad - Public Domain

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Painting: A skeleton peeks out from under a veil, sitting at a table with books
January 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Convento de San Vicente Ferrer, Plasencia

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Mural of a skeleton with a sickle
December 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Diego Bejarano (Sevilla, 18. Jhd.), Trampantojo

Museo de Bellas Artes Sevilla

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#museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur
Painting of a skull and flowers
December 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Lucas Cranach: Christ Child Triumphant over Death and Sin (I530-40), detail

Museo Lázaro Galdiano / Photo: @musermeku.bsky.social

#museumofskeletons #art #medievalart #medieval #kunst #kultur #mittelalter
Painting: A skeleton is being trampled, next to it a snake coiled around a staff and a lamb
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Cemitério dos Prazeres, Lisbon

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#museumofskeletons #art #kultur #kunst
Photo: Gravestone: an angel sitting next to an urn above a skull
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Taschenuhr in Form eines Totenschädels, Deutschland, Mitte 19. Jh.

GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...)

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Photo: silver pocket watch with a skull and skull chain
December 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon

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Photo: A skull without teeth on an hourglass
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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A man in armour is confronted by a ghost and a skeleton. Aquatint

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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A man in armour is confronted by a ghost and a skeleton
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Ex Libris from Charles William Sherborn, 1878

Rijksmuseum | Public Domain

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etching: ex libris with a mother and child, a unicorn and a skeleton
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social

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Photo: gravestone with skull and bones
November 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Various artists/makers, 1545

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

#museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur #halloween #spookyseason
Anatomical drawing of a skeleton
October 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social

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Photo: etching of skull and bones on a tombstone
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Skeletons acting out phrases in James Thomson’s „The seasons“: fourteen scenes. Etching by H. J. Pidding, 1822

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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Etching: Skeletons shovel earth into a hearse
October 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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greetings from Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social

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Photo: Gravestone with skull and bones
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The Antiquary’s Last Will and Testament (The English Dance of Death, plate 2), Thomas Rowlandson, Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, April 1 1814

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton with an arrow and a cat hissing at it
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Sterne and Death: „And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door“, Thomas Patch, British

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: a man is visited by a skeleton with an hourglass
September 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson, 1816

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton in the middle of scared people in a ballroom
September 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico’, Crisóstomo Alejandrino José Martínez y Sorli, Spanish, Plate ca. 1680–94; printed 1740

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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anatomical drawings of a male human body and the skeleton of a child
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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The Triumph of Death on Time, from „The Triumphs of Petrarch“, Georg Pencz, German

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: A skeleton with a sickle stands on dead bodies
August 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb. Etched by Stefano della Bella, Italian, ca. 1648

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: a figure drags an old man, at his feet a skeleton with an hourglass
August 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Death points an arrow at a female dancer. Aquatint by Joshua Gleadah, 1822

Wellcome Collection, Public Domain

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Drawing: a skeleton points an arrow at a female dancer
August 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The dance of death: the sentinel. Etching by Daniel N. Chodowiecki, 1791

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton with hat an boots attacks a soldier
August 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The dance of death. Etching by Richard Dagley, 1841.

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a skull with spider legs comes out of a fireplace towards an old man on a chair
August 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The dance of death at Basel: death and the painter. Lithograph by G. Danzer after Hieronymus Hess

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a man in front of a painting, behind the canvas hides a skeleton
August 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM