Trust events get under the skin
30 May 2009
Highlighting the mixture of serious science and fairground horror that captivated European audiences at the time, ‘Exquisite Bodies’ illustrates the interest in empirical knowledge, and the surprising and complex attitudes towards reproduction, disease and death that existed.
Wellcome Collection also produced the television series ‘The Operation: Surgery Live’, aiming to demystify modern surgery and engage a broader audience in the wonders of the process. Produced with Channel 4, the programmes gave audiences the chance to ask some of Britain’s top surgeons questions during live operations broadcast from a hospital operating theatre.
Elsewhere, we are funding ‘Assembling Bodies’ at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. The exhibition reveals and challenges our preconceived notions of the human body by exploring the different ways that bodies are imagined and understood in the arts and in social and biomedical sciences.
