Last month was four weekends of Open Studios - and what fun it was! Visitors included a number of professionals - an archaeologist, an...

What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here

So last month I had a chance to meet a new skull. And was invited by a pro to "say what I see". Let's see what I can tell you about a...

Sorry I've been so quiet recently. I had a long rest after Dying for Life, then a push to write up the final bits for my photography...

A long overdue update on the magic lantern slides that I acquired at auction, originally from the marvellous J. A. Fairfax Fozzard, the...

Anatomy illustrations have often switched between the fiction of placing skeletons in lifelike poses and shocking honesty of showing not...

Channel Four made the first televised autopsy with Dr Gunther von Hagen's in 2002. There was much criticism by people who I can only...

Today, not many words are needed, as I just wanted to share my first attempts to bring out the beauty of the variety of skull shapes....

Okay, not really. I have spent most of my recent Friday's enjoying the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry (of Nunkie theatre) performing...

After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...

Which way does a chicken lay an egg? Little end first - and ease into it? Or big end first and finish with a relief? In the hopes of...

"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...

As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...

Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....

Stunned by tonight's Doctor Who episode, Flatline. A lovely concept, and thoroughly enjoyable images (and I'll try not to spoil it if you...

Do yourself a favour. Rather than receive the same old Christmas jumper and socks this year, get your relatives to buy you a skull! There...

Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...

I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...