Mutter Museum 2011 Calendar

ISBN: 9780922233380

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With an annual visitorship exceeding 100,000, the M¨¹tter Museum has become America's most popular medical museum. Featured on the Discovery channel and The Late Show with David Letterman , the M¨¹tter Museum's collection originated more than 150 years ago with Dr. Thomas Dent M¨¹tter, a 19th-century Philadelphia surgeon who collected unique anatomic and pathological materials for his personal teaching "museum": bones; air-dried, varnished anatomic specimens; plaster casts; fluid-preserved specimens; wax and papier-mach¨¦ models; and oil and watercolor paintings. The collection grew to include such oddities as the death cast and connected livers of the legendary Siamese twins Chang and Eng, the skeleton of a 7' 6" giant, and Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of more than 2,000 swallowed objects removed from the throats and airways of his patients. The tenth in this highly regarded series, the M¨¹tter Museum 2011 Calendar presents 12 new images of the museum's fascinating collection by a renowned group of photographers who have turned their attention to the unexpected art inherent in the study of medical science. The 2011 calendar's photographs are by Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Scott Irvine, Mark Kessell, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, and Arne Svenson.