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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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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

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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
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A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle, after Vesalius. Jean Le Rond d‘Alembert, engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after a woodcut, 1543.

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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Etching: A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle
August 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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A winged skeleton holding a drawing of a seated model, with human bones and skulls on the table and floor beside him. Etching by or after Jacques Gamelin, 1778/9.

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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Etching: A winged skeleton holding a drawing of a seated model, with human bones and skulls on the table and floor beside him.
August 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk, Engraving by Inigo Barlow, ca. 1800.

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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Engraving: Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk
August 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body ... / Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1749

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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Drawing: side profile of a human skeleton
July 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book II), Various artists/makers, May 1, 1788

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: a winged man, a naked woman and a skeleton with an arrow
July 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The Triumph of Death from The Triumphs of Petrarch, Attributed to Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Netherlandish, ca. 1548–49

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton floating over a dead woman
July 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Roundel with Vanitas, North Netherlandish, 1510–20

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Glass painting: a skeleton with a spear targeting a bishop
July 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Book 2, Fable 20: Minos and Death (Minos et la Mort), from „Fables Nouvelles“, Various artists/makers, 1719

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: A skeleton with a cloak and a scythe stands between suffering people
July 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM