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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Aug 22

Our next public event is scheduled for the end of September, stay posted for more details!

Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Aug 22

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!

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Book your spots here: www.eventbrite.com/e/bones-of-c...

Bones of Contention: Tales from the Foundation of the Old Anatomy Museum

Travel back to 1825 through a special curator-led museum tour and pop-up exhibition from our archives.

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Aug 18

Details & booking link for limited tickets dropping in the early AM! 🥁 #heritageweek2025 #museumevents #heritageevents

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Jun 13

Just a few hours to go!

Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Jun 11

#histmed #tcdmedicine #medicalhumanities #queeranatomies #queethistory #lbgtqhistory #artinmedicine #anatomy #medicalmuseum #irishhistory @tcddublin.bsky.social

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Jun 11

Please note that this event is 18+ only.

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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Evi Numen @evinumen.bsky.social · May 29

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!

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · May 19

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:

Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · May 19

Mark your calendars!

National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · May 16

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...

This new guided LGBTQIA+ tour at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks views the exhibitions through alternative lenses, bringing some hidden histories and perspectives to the fore. Focusing on objects and individuals from the 17th to the 21st century, the tour reveals a wide variety of identities, genders and sexualities along the way.

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · May 14

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:

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · May 14

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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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · Apr 22

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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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Apr 21

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Apr 21

Learn more & help #cureFOP at www.ifopa.org

IFOPA - International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association

www.ifopa.org

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Apr 21

What can we learn about the future of #FOPResearch from its past?

Promo poster for free online talk that reads as follows:

Written in Bone: The Past, Present, and Future of FOP Research

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
6-7.30 pm IST

April 23rd is the International Day for FOP Awareness.

The skeletons of two individuals that lived with this rare condition in the 18th and 19th centuries reside within the Anatomy Museum of the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and represent the lived experiences and historical research around FOP in the past.

Other such remains can be found in anatomy and pathology museums around the world, including the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. What can we learn from the lives and 'afterlives' of these individuals? How can their stories contribute to contemporary research?

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Apr 21

What is #FOP ?

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Apr 21

This Wednesday! 6- 7.30 pm IST Register here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/written-in...

April 23rd is the International Day for FOP Awareness.

What is FOP?

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is a very rare genetic condition that affects about 900 people worldwide today. In simple terms, the condition causes bone to form in muscles and connective tissue (joints, ligaments, fascia), greatly restricting movement and affecting one's quality of life.

Even though research into the management of the condition and the discovery of a cure progresses, the lack of awareness of this extremely rare disease can delay diagnosis and treatment, as well as decrease research support and outcomes.

The skeletons of two individuals that lived with this rare condition in the 18th and 19th centuries reside within the Anatomy Museum of the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and represent the lived experiences and historical research around FOP in the past.
Other such remains can be found in anatomy and pathology museums around the world, including the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. What can we learn from the lives and 'afterlives' of these individuals? How can their stories contribute to contemporary research?

Join us for an online illustrated talk exploring the history, present, and future of FOP research, with our curator Evi Numen, and Anna Dhody, the founder of the Dhody Research Institute and former curator of the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

This is a free talk, open to all. In lieu of fees, we encourage donations to the International FOP Association through www.ifopa.org

Registered attendees will receive a zoom link prior to the event.

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Apr 20

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

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Mar 11

The reference work can be found in its entirety courtesy of @archive.org: archive.org/details/tude...

Études cliniques sur l'hystéro-épilepsie, ou Grande hystérie : Richer, Paul Marie Louis Pierre, 1849-1933 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

734 p. 26 cm

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Mar 11

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:

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Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Mar 6

The greater part of it is exhaled & is carried by the winds and clouds to distant regions, &finally they descend with rains to fertilise the earth. We thus repay our great debt to nature, and return the elements of our bodies to the common storehouse.Thus ends this strange, eventful history.” 4/4

Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social · Mar 6

Macartney prefaces this poem extract with these words:

“The last great event is the extinction of the systematic functions which is commonly called death. As soon as the vitality of the tissue is lost, the body becomes subject to the laws of inorganic matter.
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