Mounted photographs of the Musée Dupuytren’s interior by Antoine Joseph Charles Lansiaux, 1918.
Featured on PDR in the essay Displaying the Dead: The Musée Dupuytren Catalogue
When Paris’ infamous museum of anatomical pathology closed its doors in 2016, a controversial collection disappeared from view. Daisy Sainsbury explores the history of the Musée Dupuytren, and asks what an ethical future might look like for the human specimens it held.