About this Event
This talk will be recorded and made available online at a later date.
ISL interpretation will be provided.
About this talk:
Two hundred years ago, Professor of Anatomy James Macartney laid the foundation of the Museum of the School of Physic at Trinity College Dublin. The museum was to form the crux of the school’s education program and hoped to rival renowned medical museums in the UK and beyond. Over the decades, its collections of human and animal specimens, models, artefacts and illustrations were added to, moved, buried, hidden, and recently re-discovered.
What is the role of a 200-year-old museum of anatomy and pathology in 2025? What can we learn from the lives and memories of those who contributed to medical science? As we catalogue, conserve, and curate a collection previously kept behind closed doors, we consider how to re-draw the role of the medical museum in a contemporary public context, while addressing political and social disparities. In doing so, we are inevitably called to grapple with questions of mortality and the diversity of the human experience.
About the speaker:
Evi Numen is the Curator of the Old Anatomy Museum of Trinity College Dublin. Since 2018 she has been working on a project to catalogue, conserve, and curate the medical heritage collection of the School of Medicine. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Before her current engagement, she held the position of Exhibitions Manager & Designer at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 2009 to 2016. Her research interests include 19th-century dissection, medical museum practices, and their intersections with end-of-life rituals.
About the series:
The Oak Room Heritage Talks free public lecture series aims to showcase heritage projects, topics and new research across Dublin city, and is an action of the Dublin City Strategic Heritage Plan 2024 - 2029.
The series has received grant support from the Heritage Council.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Oak Room, Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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