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Photo: Pottery from the archive at Museum of London

Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men

Fri 19 Oct to Sun 14 Apr

Museum of London

150 London Wall

London

EC2Y 5HN


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T: 0870 444 3850

E: info@museumoflondon.org.uk

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Visitor Information

Daily 10am-6pm
Admission prices tbc

Explore the early 19th century history of human dissection and the trade in dead bodies through dramatic evidence unearthed during Museum of London Archaeology excavations at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. From resurrection men and surgeon-anatomists to the East End patients whose remains were taken for medical research, you’ll follow the stories of those at the centre of a fierce debate to legalise the confiscation of ‘unclaimed’ bodies, giving the State the right to decide the fate of vulnerable individuals after death.