Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin
@oldanatomytcd.bsky.social
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
Please note that this event is 18+ only.
June 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Please note that this event is 18+ only.
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 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...
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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:
All have their own stories to reveal. Like this vividly coloured and ‘be-doodled’(🤔?) copy of Cunningham’s notebook addendum to his Practical Manual of Anatomy:
May 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
All have their own stories to reveal. Like this vividly coloured and ‘be-doodled’(🤔?) copy of Cunningham’s notebook addendum to his Practical Manual of Anatomy:
April 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What can we learn about the future of #FOPResearch from its past?
April 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What can we learn about the future of #FOPResearch from its past?
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
and last but not least, 6. Lantern slide showing cardiac anatomy, from a lecture given in the early 1900s.
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
and last but not least, 6. Lantern slide showing cardiac anatomy, from a lecture given in the early 1900s.
5. Dissection of a calf heart showing the Bundle of His, prepared by Prof. Jamieson in 1932
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
5. Dissection of a calf heart showing the Bundle of His, prepared by Prof. Jamieson in 1932
4. Polychrome plaster model of the human heart, likely by the Bock Steger Studio, Leipzig, 1880s
(Featured in our "A Cabinet of Wonders" exhibit, researched and written by intern Max Ullman in 2024. )
(Featured in our "A Cabinet of Wonders" exhibit, researched and written by intern Max Ullman in 2024. )
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
4. Polychrome plaster model of the human heart, likely by the Bock Steger Studio, Leipzig, 1880s
(Featured in our "A Cabinet of Wonders" exhibit, researched and written by intern Max Ullman in 2024. )
(Featured in our "A Cabinet of Wonders" exhibit, researched and written by intern Max Ullman in 2024. )
3. Wax model of a foetal heart, Adolf Ziegler Studio, 1860s-1880s
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
3. Wax model of a foetal heart, Adolf Ziegler Studio, 1860s-1880s
2. "Example of a peculiar disposition of of the large Veins of the Abdomen and Thorax", Plate 58. Fig. 10, The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, Richard Quain, F.R.S. illustrated by Joseph Maclise, 1844
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
2. "Example of a peculiar disposition of of the large Veins of the Abdomen and Thorax", Plate 58. Fig. 10, The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, Richard Quain, F.R.S. illustrated by Joseph Maclise, 1844
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
Sir William Turner (1832 - 1916) published this work early in his career, just as he completed his MB in Anatomy at 25 years old. ( Daguerreotype (1854) of William Turner as demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. )
February 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Sir William Turner (1832 - 1916) published this work early in his career, just as he completed his MB in Anatomy at 25 years old. ( Daguerreotype (1854) of William Turner as demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. )
This one isn't too bad either!
February 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This one isn't too bad either!
Here's the full illustration and the title page:
February 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Here's the full illustration and the title page:
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
You can peruse a 1859 copy of Maclise's Surgical Atlas in its entirety at @archive.org from the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
archive.org/details/b327...
archive.org/details/b327...
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
You can peruse a 1859 copy of Maclise's Surgical Atlas in its entirety at @archive.org from the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
archive.org/details/b327...
archive.org/details/b327...
All illustrations in the anatomical atlas are minimally coloured; with just blue denoting venal supply and red arterial, achieving a refined aesthetic throughout.
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
All illustrations in the anatomical atlas are minimally coloured; with just blue denoting venal supply and red arterial, achieving a refined aesthetic throughout.