RT Journal Article T1 Risky Histories A1 Manon Parry YR 2021 VO 14 IS Curating Medicine K1 Medical museums K1 collections K1 material culture K1 race K1 racial science K1 disability K1 mental health K1 sexuality and reproduction K1 exhibitions K1 public engagement AB NO Renovated museums include the Narrenturm Museum (2018) and the Josephinum Museum, Vienna (on-going); Museum Ovartaci, Aarhus (2019); the Teknisk Museum, Oslo (on-going) and the Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds (2019–). The Medical History Museum in Hamburg opened in 2010 and the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy in 2015; RSU Anatomy Museum at Riga Stradinš University is scheduled to open in 2020. New museums are under consideration at Catholic University, Leuven (KU Leuven), and Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). NO The project was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and will conclude with a book, Human Curiosities: The Social Relevance of Medical Museums, to be published in 2021. NO Criticisms of the Body Worlds project have arisen over the issue of informed consent and the commercial spectacle of public anatomies. On this and scandals surrounding misuse of human remains, see Rina Knoeff, ‘Ball Pool Anatomy: On the Public Veneration of Anatomical Relics’, in Rina Knoeff and Robert Zwijnenberg (eds), 2015, The Fate of Anatomical Collections: The History of Medicine in Context (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate), p 279. NO The RCMG team who initiated and managed the project were Jocelyn Dodd, Richard Sandell, Debbie Jolly and Ceri Jones, and the participating museums were Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Colchester Castle Museum; Lives in Motion, Glasgow Museum of Transport; Conflict and Disability, Imperial War Museum London; Northampton Museum and Art Gallery; Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum; Stamford Museum; One in Four, Tyne and Wear Museums; Whitby Museum. NO Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London; Royal College of Physicians Museum, London; Science Museum, London; Royal London Hospital Museum and Archive, London; Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability, Normansfield, Middlesex; Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham, Kent; Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds; Surgeons' Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. NO Examples of such projects were presented at the European Association of Museums of the history of Medical Sciences, in Barcelona 2018 (Sophie Goggins, Scotland and Ilze Sirma, Ieva Libiete, Latvia), and Groningen 2016 (Alfons Zarzoso, Spain). NO As noted by Bart Grob, during a tour of the exhibitions which he provided for attendees of the ‘Race in the Medical Museum: Collections and Exhibitions’, 22 November 2019. PB The Science Museum Group SN 2054-5770 LA eng DO 10.15180/201406 UL http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-14/risky-histories/ CR Allegaert, P, Marius, B and Scull, A (eds), 2019, Unhinged: Museum Dr. Guislain. 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