The eleventh in this highly regarded series, the Mütter Museum 2012 Calendar presents 12 new images of the museum's fascinating collection by a renowned group of photographers who have turned their attention to the unexpected art inherent in the study of medical science. Photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg, M.D.; Gwen Akin and Allan Ludwig; Scott Irvine; Olivia Parker; Rosamond Purcell; Richard Ross; and Arne Svenson.

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Hidden Treasure, a spectacular book with 450 images, celebrating the 175th anniversary of the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library.

"My fantasy holiday is a week spent locked in the archives of the National Library of Medicine, so you can imagine how excited I am about this book. It's an incomparable treasure trove. I hugged it to my chest like a four-year-old with a new pair of shoes."
— Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Packing for Mars

Publication date: April 2, 2012

Eighteenth-century French anatomist Honoré Fragonard's Écorchés—preserved dissected animal and human cadavers—are extraordinary works of virtuosic skill that have survived nearly two hundred and fifty years in the Fragonard Museum in Alfort, on the outskirts of Paris. They are the real and very rare18th-century precursor to BodyWorlds and other modern-day anatomical specimen exhibitions.

Mütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs was the #1 most popular pictorial attraction on Newsweeek.com for 2008

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