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We have many wonderful upcoming events at the Morbid Anatomy Museum! First, please save the date for the second annual Morbid Anatomy Museum Gala and Afterparty . We hope you can join us for a special evening of dinner, drinks, performances & special guests, an auction of one-of-a-kind art, objects, and experiences, and much more this April 12th at the Bell House . We'll venture through the underbelly of 19th century Paris and learn about its labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment with author Luc Sante (Wednesday, February 10th, 7 pm); host a family-friendly insect and reptile petting zoo with NYU biology student, Aaron Rodriguez (Monday, February 29th, 7pm); look at the integral role of the dream in alchemical and creative practice with alchemist Brian Cotnoir (Monday, April 4th, 7 pm); Andi Harriman offers a history of goth subculture from its DIY beginnings in the late 70s to its demise at the turn of the 90s (Wednesday, April 27th, ...

Morbid Anatomy is delighted to announce a new, Madrid-based Congress for Curious People, sponsored by Hendrick's Gin and co-presented by The Morbid Anatomy Museum and Atlas Obscura! Full info follows; All events will have English translation or information provided in English.Hope to see some or our Spain-based readers at one or more of these terrific events! Henrick's Congress for Curious People in Madrid, Co-presented by The Morbid Anatomy Museum and Atlas Obscura Dates: Wednesday, February 3 - Sunday, February 7 Times: Variable Admission: Variable Hendrick's Gin is pleased to present the "Congress for Curious People" in Madrid, a cultural week from February 3-7 dedicated to discovering the most unusual places in the capital of Spain. This Congress will be directed by Pablo Raijenstein (mentalist and Hendrick's Gin ambassador in Spain) and Felipe Trigo (an Spanish events producer, historian and cultural guide) in collaboration with The Morbid Anatomy Mu...

Following, Morbid Anatomy Museum Board Member Amy Slonaker shares her experience with a session of "Midcentury Stereopanorama with Eric Drysdale," in which attendees explore a virtual 1950s America via 3D stereoviews. This event is a passion project of Eric Drysdale--writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show-- who has collected a vast collection of these slides which illustrate the mundane (a department store floor by floor) to the spectacular (what appear to be strange stag parties), all in startling and oddly magical 3D. Following is Amy's post; you can experience this for yourself at our next interations of the popular event on January 27 or February 17 . In his 1936 essay Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , Walter Benjamin writes, “that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art.” Clearly he’d never tried a Stereo Realist 3D Camera System. If he had, his whole thesis might be different since t...

One of the many films in the vast collection of the National Library of Medicine is the one above: Die englische Krankheit (The English Disease) , a circa 1941Nazi health education film about rickets. Below is a post by Michael Sappol--historian at the National Library of Medicine ,  author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies , and curator of Dream Anatomy . It was originally posted on their wonderful Circulating Now blog. Deformed unfortunates trudge back and forth, in a darkly-lit procession, over a map of Great Britain as the soundtrack sounds anxious notes of alarm. That extravagantly horrific scene introduces the Die englische Krankheit (The English Disease) , a 13-minute black-and-white health education film, produced during wartime, under the supervision of Nazi authorities, by Universum Film AG (“UFA”), the largest German film studio of the time. After a censorship board approved it as suitable for adults and children, it premiered in Berlin in April of 1941. Made under condi...

Morbid Anatomy is now seeking a part time Retail/Visitor Services Associate. The job will be approximately 20-30 hours a week at $10 an hour. If you are interested, please send a resume and a brief paragraph describing your interest to cristina [at] morbidanatomymuseum.org with "Retail Associate Application" in subject line.  Responsibilities: Welcoming visitors to the museum Ringing up sales and museum admissions Tidying the space Answering the phone Side projects as directed by the office manager Sales Cleaning Answering visitor questions Customer service Keeping inventory of supplies Updating mailing list Opening and closing the museum and store Working events  Shipping and handling of online orders Qualifications: Retail/shopkeeping experience Neat and tidy in work space Friendly and outgoing Interested in the Morbid Anatomy Museum and the topics we cover

In the following guest post, Morbid Anatomy foreign corespondent Eric Huang reports on the memento mori-themed crypt of Prague's Loreto Church. All photos are his own. For more, see t his previous post from 2012, or come visit the full catalog in the Morbid Anatomy Library! A remarkable discovery was made in 2011 when the crypt at the Loreto Church in Prague was opened for the first time in centuries. What they discovered was a burial chamber ornately decorated in black and white memento mori frescos from 1664 created by an unknown artist. The crypt is not open to the public, but a recreation of the main chamber is on display at the Loreta Praha Museum. The exhibit entryway is flanked by puti and curtained like a sideshow attraction in a red light district. A volunteer told me the curtains are there as a warning to families as the exhibit proved unsuitable for certain families. Indeed, two little girls dragged their mother out of the curtains, screaming whilst running away just a...

Stephen Romano is the Morbid Anatomy Museum curator in residence; he is also the man behind our recent wonderful “Opus Hypnagogia" exhibit ( New York Times here) in which he showcased a number of works by American visionary artist Charles Dellschau (1830 - 1923). Stephen is now exhibiting a large collection of Dellschau's idiosyncratic watercolor and collage artworks--a few of which can be seen above--at his gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Following is a guest post about the show and the artist by Romano. You can visit the show--entitled Charles A. A. Dellschau (1830 - 1923) American Visionary"-- through February 15, 2016; more on that here. According to well respected art writer Tom Patterson’s Raw Vision Magazine review of the extensive monograph I produced with Marquand Books and distributed by DAP Artbooks, “Charles Dellschau is widely acknowledged as an Outsider master in the same league as Adolph Wolfli, Henry Darger and Martin Ramirez.” The first exhibition of De...