Surgery and Anatomy gallery in the Hunterian Museum
Resources for Art and design
From the 1500s, with the increased acceptance of human dissection, anatomy became more accurate and scientific. Anatomists and surgeons collaborated with artists to produce atlases of the human body in vivid detail.
The displays in the Museum contains fine art objects including paintings, busts, drawings, surgical instruments and equipment, 3D anatomy images and anatomical preparations.
The displays in the Museum contains fine art objects including paintings, busts, drawings, surgical instruments and equipment, 3D anatomy images and anatomical preparations.
Suitable for
- Students studying or who have an interest in Art and design
Areas of study include
- Anatomical, natural history and scientific drawings
- Anatomical specimens of human, animal and plant tissue
- Prints
- Digital books
- Paintings (portraiture, caricature, animals and nature)
- Busts
- Videos
- Ceramics
- AV tables of anatomical bodies, videos, drawings
- Wax models
- Skeletons and bones
- 3D models
- Fossils
- Microscopic slides
- Furniture
- Silverware
- Surgical instruments and equipment
- Teeth
Hunterian Museum Entrance
Evelyn Tables, Surgery and Anatomy Gallery
The Dissecting Room by Thomas Rowlandson, Making of a Surgeon Gallery
Leicester Square and Long Gallery
Modern Surgery Gallery
Surgery and Anatomy Gallery