Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin
@oldanatomytcd.bsky.social
Our sincerest thanks to all those who chose to spend their #heritageweek time with us! We love having you in our halls and sharing the stories reflected in our medical heritage collection!
And of course to @heritagecouncil.ie for organising such an amazing opportunity & platform for us to do so!
And of course to @heritagecouncil.ie for organising such an amazing opportunity & platform for us to do so!
August 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our sincerest thanks to all those who chose to spend their #heritageweek time with us! We love having you in our halls and sharing the stories reflected in our medical heritage collection!
And of course to @heritagecouncil.ie for organising such an amazing opportunity & platform for us to do so!
And of course to @heritagecouncil.ie for organising such an amazing opportunity & platform for us to do so!
Correction: Tomorrow and Thursday! Tickets are free, but in limited numbers and registration is required.
We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Please secure your spots here:
www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...
We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Please secure your spots here:
www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...
August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Correction: Tomorrow and Thursday! Tickets are free, but in limited numbers and registration is required.
We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Please secure your spots here:
www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...
We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Please secure your spots here:
www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...
Details & booking link for limited tickets dropping in the early AM! 🥁 #heritageweek2025 #museumevents #heritageevents
August 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Details & booking link for limited tickets dropping in the early AM! 🥁 #heritageweek2025 #museumevents #heritageevents
Just a few hours to go!
This Friday! Join us at 6pm for a fascinating view into the hidden codes within anatomical illustration guided by author + historian of medicine Michael Sappol, and a pop up exhibit of illustrations by Irish anatomist Joseph Maclise and his contemporaries in our museum.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just a few hours to go!
This Friday! Join us at 6pm for a fascinating view into the hidden codes within anatomical illustration guided by author + historian of medicine Michael Sappol, and a pop up exhibit of illustrations by Irish anatomist Joseph Maclise and his contemporaries in our museum.
tinyurl.com/Queeranatomi...
tinyurl.com/Queeranatomi...
June 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This Friday! Join us at 6pm for a fascinating view into the hidden codes within anatomical illustration guided by author + historian of medicine Michael Sappol, and a pop up exhibit of illustrations by Irish anatomist Joseph Maclise and his contemporaries in our museum.
tinyurl.com/Queeranatomi...
tinyurl.com/Queeranatomi...
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In love with yesterday’s #archivefind in the @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social #medicalheritage collection. Likely a turn of the century skiagraph (early form of x-ray) of a human skull, captured at an unusual angle. Such a striking image!
May 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In love with yesterday’s #archivefind in the @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social #medicalheritage collection. Likely a turn of the century skiagraph (early form of x-ray) of a human skull, captured at an unusual angle. Such a striking image!
This Wednesday at 9pm IST airing on TG4 in Gaeilge @tg4.bsky.social!
Tune in to learn about the life and work of Irish surgeon #DenisBurkitt and #TCDMedSchool alumn who discovered a rare form of cancer, #BurkittsLymphoma:
Tune in to learn about the life and work of Irish surgeon #DenisBurkitt and #TCDMedSchool alumn who discovered a rare form of cancer, #BurkittsLymphoma:
May 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This Wednesday at 9pm IST airing on TG4 in Gaeilge @tg4.bsky.social!
Tune in to learn about the life and work of Irish surgeon #DenisBurkitt and #TCDMedSchool alumn who discovered a rare form of cancer, #BurkittsLymphoma:
Tune in to learn about the life and work of Irish surgeon #DenisBurkitt and #TCDMedSchool alumn who discovered a rare form of cancer, #BurkittsLymphoma:
Mark your calendars!
Join us as we mark 10 years since the Marriage Equality Referendum with a vibrant, community festival celebrating love, progress, & pride!
Family-friendly activities, New LGBTQIA+ guided tours, National Museum of Ireland– Collins Barracks
Sat, 24 May 2025 🕚 11AM– 7PM
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...
Family-friendly activities, New LGBTQIA+ guided tours, National Museum of Ireland– Collins Barracks
Sat, 24 May 2025 🕚 11AM– 7PM
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Mark your calendars!
Yesterday was devoted to organising part of our antique #bookcollection! Most of the volumes in it are part of a lending library the #anatomydepartment held for student use from the 1830s to the 1980s. Some belonged to former students and are heavily annotated. Others are professors’ own copies.
May 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Yesterday was devoted to organising part of our antique #bookcollection! Most of the volumes in it are part of a lending library the #anatomydepartment held for student use from the 1830s to the 1980s. Some belonged to former students and are heavily annotated. Others are professors’ own copies.
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Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study. Read the full article here t.ly/wvfZb
Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study
Retired high-performance contact sports athletes are being asked to participate in a ground-breaking research study led by the School Psychology and the School of Medicine investigating the links betw...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study. Read the full article here t.ly/wvfZb
April 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A Happy Easter from us all here with this appropriately antique, but physiologically dubious 1905 postcard!
#OldAnatomy #oldAnatomyMuseum #OldAnatomyTCD #anatomyTCD #MedicalHeritage #easterGreetings #antiquePostcard #medicalHumanities #historyOfIreland #trinityCollegeDublin #dublinMuseums
#OldAnatomy #oldAnatomyMuseum #OldAnatomyTCD #anatomyTCD #MedicalHeritage #easterGreetings #antiquePostcard #medicalHumanities #historyOfIreland #trinityCollegeDublin #dublinMuseums
April 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A Happy Easter from us all here with this appropriately antique, but physiologically dubious 1905 postcard!
#OldAnatomy #oldAnatomyMuseum #OldAnatomyTCD #anatomyTCD #MedicalHeritage #easterGreetings #antiquePostcard #medicalHumanities #historyOfIreland #trinityCollegeDublin #dublinMuseums
#OldAnatomy #oldAnatomyMuseum #OldAnatomyTCD #anatomyTCD #MedicalHeritage #easterGreetings #antiquePostcard #medicalHumanities #historyOfIreland #trinityCollegeDublin #dublinMuseums
Artwork conservation day here at the museum! Cleaning a layer of dust off this late 19th cent. watercolour painting by Marsella Irwin is time-consuming and careful work, but quite satisfying!
The artwork is one of a set of copies of drawings of ‘hysteric’ epilepsy by Paul Richer published in 1881:
The artwork is one of a set of copies of drawings of ‘hysteric’ epilepsy by Paul Richer published in 1881:
March 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Artwork conservation day here at the museum! Cleaning a layer of dust off this late 19th cent. watercolour painting by Marsella Irwin is time-consuming and careful work, but quite satisfying!
The artwork is one of a set of copies of drawings of ‘hysteric’ epilepsy by Paul Richer published in 1881:
The artwork is one of a set of copies of drawings of ‘hysteric’ epilepsy by Paul Richer published in 1881:
#OnThisDay in 1843, Professor of Anatomy at @tcddublin.bsky.social and curator of our museum, James Macartney (b.1770) penned his last words, quoting the poem “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope (1688–1744): 🧵 1/4
March 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#OnThisDay in 1843, Professor of Anatomy at @tcddublin.bsky.social and curator of our museum, James Macartney (b.1770) penned his last words, quoting the poem “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope (1688–1744): 🧵 1/4
We have one too but it's terrible condition 😭
The material it's made of (a proprietary mix of papier mâché, cork, pigment, and more) makes its conservation extremely tricky. We do want to try to save ours though! Auzoux pieces are such gems of medical model-making.
The material it's made of (a proprietary mix of papier mâché, cork, pigment, and more) makes its conservation extremely tricky. We do want to try to save ours though! Auzoux pieces are such gems of medical model-making.
For #ValentinesDay, I'll be posting #HistoricalHearts
Let's start with this life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck.
Let's start with this life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck.
February 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We have one too but it's terrible condition 😭
The material it's made of (a proprietary mix of papier mâché, cork, pigment, and more) makes its conservation extremely tricky. We do want to try to save ours though! Auzoux pieces are such gems of medical model-making.
The material it's made of (a proprietary mix of papier mâché, cork, pigment, and more) makes its conservation extremely tricky. We do want to try to save ours though! Auzoux pieces are such gems of medical model-making.
We are also rather fond of these hearts in our collection 🫀🧵
Repost your favourite! #ValentinesDay #MuseumValentine #Archivalentine #thisIsTrinityMed
1. Cardiac Anatomy, A system of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, John Lizars, F.R.S.E, Edinburgh, 1822
Repost your favourite! #ValentinesDay #MuseumValentine #Archivalentine #thisIsTrinityMed
1. Cardiac Anatomy, A system of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, John Lizars, F.R.S.E, Edinburgh, 1822
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We are also rather fond of these hearts in our collection 🫀🧵
Repost your favourite! #ValentinesDay #MuseumValentine #Archivalentine #thisIsTrinityMed
1. Cardiac Anatomy, A system of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, John Lizars, F.R.S.E, Edinburgh, 1822
Repost your favourite! #ValentinesDay #MuseumValentine #Archivalentine #thisIsTrinityMed
1. Cardiac Anatomy, A system of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, John Lizars, F.R.S.E, Edinburgh, 1822
Happy #ValentinesDay! 🫀
We are absolutely in love with this colourful illustration of the circulatory system from the "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by William Turner M.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1857, in our book collection. #MuseumValentine #ArchivalValentine
We are absolutely in love with this colourful illustration of the circulatory system from the "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by William Turner M.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1857, in our book collection. #MuseumValentine #ArchivalValentine
February 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Happy #ValentinesDay! 🫀
We are absolutely in love with this colourful illustration of the circulatory system from the "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by William Turner M.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1857, in our book collection. #MuseumValentine #ArchivalValentine
We are absolutely in love with this colourful illustration of the circulatory system from the "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by William Turner M.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1857, in our book collection. #MuseumValentine #ArchivalValentine
As a welcome gift, please enjoy this delicate illustration from our collection by Irish medical illustrator, surgeon, & anatomist Joseph Maclise (1815-1880). Published in "Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy" in 1851, it shows the arterial supply of the spinal cord, coloured in red.
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
As a welcome gift, please enjoy this delicate illustration from our collection by Irish medical illustrator, surgeon, & anatomist Joseph Maclise (1815-1880). Published in "Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy" in 1851, it shows the arterial supply of the spinal cord, coloured in red.
Hello Bsky world, we are excited to be here!
February 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hello Bsky world, we are excited to be here!