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Medical wax models in Mexico City

David Pescovitz at 11:24 am Mon, Apr 20, 2009

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Over at Morbid Anatomy, Joanna has word of a pathological wax model exhibition at the Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina in Mexico City. Some of the images are NSFW and also NSFFaint-of-heart.

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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sigismund

If you like these, you’ll certainly like Gaetano Zumbo’s work !!!
Anonymous

there’s a museum like this in Florence, Italy called La Specola. it’s old and dark and terrifying and gorgeous.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=la+specola&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=1fTsSfK8E5rKMpHTgdgF&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
Anonymous

#7 i don’t know about the ones here, but the ones in La Specola were for medical students to study and learn from.
tinyhonkshus

The Medical History Museum at the University of Zurich (highly recommended!) has a few of these, and I believe there is an associated museum that’s ALL moulage castings, but I had trouble finding it.
tinyhonkshus

here it is: http://www.moulagen.ch/pages/museum/museum.html
IWood

Lovecraftian blow-up dolls FTH!*

*For The Horror
Anonymous

Disturbing and beautiful at the same time.
hassan-i-sabbah

Wow ! Thanks for the heads up on Zumbo!I certainly like!
hassan-i-sabbah

Remind me of an artist,whos name eludes me at the mo,
Usesand body mod folk to create barouque black and white images of staggeringly disturbing beauty…Think he is based in New mexico also…Sorry,memory failure..any ideas?
hassan-i-sabbah

Joel Peter Witkin.
came to me in the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter_Witkin
http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin2/
And http://d-sites.net/english/witkin.htm
Guess i’m still in shock about Ballard.
Hypnoid

Am I the only one who couldn’t resist clicking through every single image in the link attempting speculative diagnoses?
strider_mt2k

Ohh.
So THAT’S what they mean by not being able to unsee things.

:|
Anonymous

I’m curious about the original intent of these sculptures. Since my knowledge of Spanish is limited to Pixies lyrics, the Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina site yielded few clues. Anyone?