Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Education

Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 5750

Address: Grattan Street and Royal Parade 3053 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://harrybrookesallenmuseum.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/

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20.01.2022 Although they seem radically different to us, cuttlefish and other cephalopod's arms are developed by the same genes as ours. In evolutionary developmental biology, this is known as 'deep homology', and can be seen in groups with strikingly dissimilar anatomy.

18.01.2022 Are you an artistic scientist? A scientific artist? In collaboration with St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and the Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, we are again offering artists the unique opportunity to be part of our Art in Biomedical Science Residency. Submissions close 30th September 2018. Details and application form at: https://harrybrookesallenmuseum.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/short-t

15.01.2022 It's that time of year again, when our museum gets turned into an arts space. For two weeks in winter, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music runs the 'Drawing With Anatomy' breadth subject in our museum. Our specimens are fantastic for artistic inspiration, and we are always amazed at what the students draw* from the experience! *Pun reluctantly intended.

14.01.2022 Good morning! "If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease."

12.01.2022 Parents can be hard to relate to at the best of times - imagine if they were two different species! "This discovery occurred through ancient DNA analysis, whereby a small piece of the teenager’s bone was pulverised, the DNA extracted, and then sequenced. The sequence was then compared to previously analysed samples from Neanderthals, modern humans, and Denisovans. Her genetic traits could only be explained if her mother was a Neanderthal and her father was a Denisovan."

10.01.2022 Are you a Postgraduate, Masters and Honours student with an eye for the scientific aesthetic? Check out Under the Coverslip - an annual student-run scientific imaging competition.

09.01.2022 Hello all. In order to limit the spread of coronavirus, the Harry Brookes Allen Museum will be closed until further notice. If you have any questions related to the museum you can get in touch at [email protected] Stay healthy everyone, and keep washing those hands. (Image: Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel, a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, circa 1656. From Wikimedia Commons.)

06.01.2022 Highly recommended - a gorgeous, dense story about a body donor from the US, Susan Potter, who gave her body for a virtual cadaver project at the University of Colorado. Incredible images and videos.

05.01.2022 We've pulled these specimens out of the cupboard to be photographed by Imaging + Posters - University of Melbourne because we're applying for a grant to get them conserved. We have a whole bunch of similar specimens - skulls and bones of gorillas, chimps and orangutans and also hominins like Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis. They were all manufactured by the Krantz company around 1912 and most of the originals are in the Berlin Museum of Natural History and other European institutions.

02.01.2022 This is your friendly Friday reminder that it is illegal to profit from the sale of human body parts!

02.01.2022 Melbourne Uni Open Day is a month away. Although our museum is usually only accessible to medical students, Open Day is the one day of the year that we are open to the public! If you've ever wanted to see our collection, this is your chance. https://openday.unimelb.edu.au/openday