Swallow : Curate

 

The refurbished cabinet of drawers containing the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection. (From the Collection of the Mütter Museum, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
The refurbished cabinet of drawers containing the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection. (From the Collection of the Mütter Museum, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Co-curating the newly-improved Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body exhibit with Anna Dhody, Curator of the Mütter Museum

Since writing Swallow, I’ve happily served as a research consultant, copy writer, and contributor to the re-furbished foreign body exhibit in Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum. In addition to gaining a new cabinet (the objects were more vulnerable in the old cabinet which was also in disrepair), the foreign body objects in the Jackson collection now enjoy a fuller contextualization that includes examples of Jackson’s instruments; his medical illustrations; the case study documenting his most difficult case, and more.

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