Our sincerest thanks to all those who chose to spend their #heritageweek time with us! We love having you in our halls and sharing the stories reflected in our medical heritage collection! And of course to @heritagecouncil.ie for organising such an amazing opportunity & platform for us to do so!

Correction: Tomorrow and Thursday! Tickets are free, but in limited numbers and registration is required. We are looking forward to welcoming you all! Please secure your spots here: www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

Details & booking link for limited tickets dropping in the early AM! 🥁 #heritageweek2025 #museumevents #heritageevents

Just a few hours to go!

This Friday! Join us at 6pm for a fascinating view into the hidden codes within anatomical illustration guided by author + historian of medicine Michael Sappol, and a pop up exhibit of illustrations by Irish anatomist Joseph Maclise and his contemporaries in our museum. tinyurl.com/Queeranatomi...

In love with yesterday’s #archivefind in the @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social #medicalheritage collection. Likely a turn of the century skiagraph (early form of x-ray) of a human skull, captured at an unusual angle. Such a striking image!

This Wednesday at 9pm IST airing on TG4 in Gaeilge @tg4.bsky.social! Tune in to learn about the life and work of Irish surgeon #DenisBurkitt and #TCDMedSchool alumn who discovered a rare form of cancer, #BurkittsLymphoma:

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Yesterday was devoted to organising part of our antique #bookcollection! Most of the volumes in it are part of a lending library the #anatomydepartment held for student use from the 1830s to the 1980s. Some belonged to former students and are heavily annotated. Others are professors’ own copies.

Links between sport-related brain injury and dementia examined in new study. Read the full article here t.ly/wvfZb

This Wednesday! 6- 7.30 pm IST Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/written-in...

A Happy Easter from us all here with this appropriately antique, but physiologically dubious 1905 postcard! #OldAnatomy #oldAnatomyMuseum #OldAnatomyTCD #anatomyTCD #MedicalHeritage #easterGreetings #antiquePostcard #medicalHumanities #historyOfIreland #trinityCollegeDublin #dublinMuseums

Artwork conservation day here at the museum! Cleaning a layer of dust off this late 19th cent. watercolour painting by Marsella Irwin is time-consuming and careful work, but quite satisfying! The artwork is one of a set of copies of drawings of ‘hysteric’ epilepsy by Paul Richer published in 1881:

#OnThisDay in 1843, Professor of Anatomy at @tcddublin.bsky.social and curator of our museum, James Macartney (b.1770) penned his last words, quoting the poem “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope (1688–1744): 🧵 1/4

We have one too but it's terrible condition 😭 The material it's made of (a proprietary mix of papier mâché, cork, pigment, and more) makes its conservation extremely tricky. We do want to try to save ours though! Auzoux pieces are such gems of medical model-making.

We are also rather fond of these hearts in our collection 🫀🧵 Repost your favourite! #ValentinesDay #MuseumValentine #Archivalentine #thisIsTrinityMed 1. Cardiac Anatomy, A system of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, John Lizars, F.R.S.E, Edinburgh, 1822

Happy #ValentinesDay! 🫀 We are absolutely in love with this colourful illustration of the circulatory system from the "Atlas of Human Anatomy and Physiology" by William Turner M.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1857, in our book collection. #MuseumValentine #ArchivalValentine

As a welcome gift, please enjoy this delicate illustration from our collection by Irish medical illustrator, surgeon, & anatomist Joseph Maclise (1815-1880). Published in "Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy" in 1851, it shows the arterial supply of the spinal cord, coloured in red.

Hello Bsky world, we are excited to be here!