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Gitta Gschwendtner at Wellcome Collection 2
Here is Gitta Gschwendtner's second exhibition space at the Wellcome Collection in London (see previous post).
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The Medicine Man exhibition shows hundreds of objects collected by Wellcome Trust founder Henry Wellcome, including sex aids, body parts and amputation saws (top image).
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Here is some info on the exhibition from the Wellcome Collection:
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Henry Wellcome was a man of many parts: entrepreneur, philanthropist, patron of science and pioneer of aerial photography. He also created one of the world's great museums: a vast stockpile of evidence about our universal interest in health and the body.
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More than 150 years after his birth in 1853, this exhibition reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects from his collection, ranging from diagnostic dolls to Japanese sex aids, and from Napoleon's toothbrush to George III's hair. It also provides a very different perspective on some of our own obsessions with medicine and health.
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In 'Medicine Man' some objects are gathered by type and others by broad cross-cultural themes. Seven other objects are presented individually and are examined by a variety of commentators from different backgrounds, to show that one object can mean many different things and tell many different stories.
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