Hidden Archives

Sometimes, one comes across an image or collection that leaves one open-mouthed. This is one of those instances. Joanna Ebenstein (founder of the Morbid Anatomy Blog and Library) has made it her quest to seek out and document...

untouched, hidden, and curious collections, from museum store-rooms to private collections, cabinets of curiosity to dusty natural history museums, obscure medical museums to hidden archives... with an eye towards capturing the poetry, mystery and wonder of these liminal spaces. 

The result? A photographic exhibition called The Secret Museum...

Cabinet of Curiosities of Bonnier de la Mosson, Paris

Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, Established 1778

Comparative Telegraph Cables, Teylers Museum

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection, London (private collection)

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

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