Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

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Monday, August 22, 2011

"Through the Weeping Glass"

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Thanks to my friend Laura Lindgren, publisher of Blast Books and producer of the soon-to-be-released 2012 Mütter Museum calendar , ...

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Mütter movie

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Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are turning their lens toward the contents of the Mütter Museum !* After making more than 24 sh...

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Stomach growls

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Let's turn inside today and consider the fact that our stomachs "growl." Dr. Michael Picco , a gastroenterologist at the Mayo ...

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Conjoined twins

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Sculpture by Deborah Costandine. Photo by Jim Ziv. Last week I heard from a woman who is in graduate school training to become an art therap...

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Gretchen Worden's portrait

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This portrait of Gretchen Worden (1947-2004) was revealed at the 150th anniversary celebration of the Mütter Museum of the College of Physic...

Friday, December 26, 2008

William Wegman

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Contemporary artist William Wegman does some nutty things with his Weimaraners, but my favorite photographs are these two, taken at my favor...

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Quigley's Cabinet: Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.

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