Washington Post graphic novel on Maura, free to read

https://wapo.st/3sgQnUC

 

Anatomical collections under attack

Revealing the Smithsonian's 'racial brain collection'

By Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy

Aug. 14 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/smithsonian-brains-collection-racial-history-repatriation

'Macabre curiosities': top US medical museum confronts skeletons of its past

Mütter Museum in Philadelphia at centre of ethics dispute over provenance of its collection of skulls, fetuses and body parts

Edward Helmore in New York

Sun 13 Aug 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/13/medical-mutter-museum-philadelphia-specimen-ethics

A Museum of 'Electrifying Frankness' Weighs Dialing It Down

The Mütter Museum, a beloved 19th-century collection of medical curiosities and human remains in Philadelphia, wants to adopt a more "respectful" approach. Some fans won't have it.

By Franz Lidz

Aug. 13, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/science/mutter-medical-museum.html

NMHM featured in WaPo

Get bitten by bug fever this Saturday at the medical museum

Perspective by John Kelly

Columnist

June 7, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/07/bugapalooza-military-bug-museum/

Civil War doctor Mary Walker coming to a quarter in 2024

https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2023/notable-women-to-appear-on-quarters.html

https://www.coinnews.net/2023/03/31/designs-recommended-for-2024-american-women-quarters/

Exhibit at Walter Reed Highlights African Americans in Civil War Medicine

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/437560/exhibit-walter-reed-highlights-african-americans-civil-war-medicine

To kick off Black History Month, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center welcomes Dr. Robert Slawson, from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, as a guest docent Feb. 2 for an exhibit highlighting the contributions of African Americans in Civil War medicine. The exhibit is on display throughout February on the first floor of the America Building (Bldg. 19).... click through the link for the rest of the article.

Scott Schoner, former Army Medical Dept. Museum curator has passed away

Scott Schoner, a former Army Medical Dept. Museum curator, passed away around January 23 2023, in Cookeville, TN of complications of congestive heart failure and RSV. Rather than medical history, Schoner's true love was the  American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and he hoped to create a foundation to continue the documentary history work he was doing after his death.

Hunterian museum removes Irish Giant from display

London Museum Removes 'Irish Giant' Skeleton From Display

The remains of Charles Byrne, a 7-foot-7 man who died in 1783, will no longer be on public view, an effort to address what one official at the Hunterian Museum called a historical wrong.

By Claire Moses

Jan. 21, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/world/europe/charles-byrne-irish-giant-museum.html

Condoms on exhibit in French National Archives

https://entre-temps.net/lhistoire-sous-vitrine-capotes-en-vitrine/