A Body of Knowledge

Above: Maker unknown, Model of the brain (dissected on wooden base), c.1900, gypsum, paint, wood. Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, University of Melbourne

As part of the Melbourne Medical School 150th Anniversary, the University of Melbourne is hosting three exhibitions under the theme, ‘A Body of Knowledge’. These exhibitions explore the differing perceptions of the human body through art in ‘The Anatomy Lesson’, and through the various approaches to teaching students in ‘The Art of Teaching: Models and Methods and The Art of Teaching: Clinical Schools’.

‘Models and Methods’: at the Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, and Medical History Museum, level 2, Brownless Biomedical Library, The University of Melbourne, 13 September 2012 – 30 January 2013

‘The Anatomy Lesson’: at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, 13 September 2012 – 30 January 2013

Information on floor talks:  http://medicine150.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/event/floortalks