Date: Sunday October 30
Time: 4-7 pm
Location: ***Offsite: La Luz De Jesus Gallery, 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Admisson: FREE and no tickets. Just show up!

Join us on the second day of the Morbid Anatomy Museum West Coast Pop-Up for a free, non-ticketed book signing event for the latest title from Morbid Anatomy Museum’s co-founder & creative director Joanna Ebenstein — The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & The Ecstatic. The book was the product of ten years of research, image collection and photography.

You will have a chance to purchase and have books signed. You will also learn all about the fascinating life and aferlives of The nAnatomical Venus — a life-sized dissectible wax woman with Venetian glass eyes, real human hair and strings of pearls created in late eighteenth-century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum. Once seen as an ideal way to entice a general public into the study of human anatomy, today, she also confounds, troubling our neat categorical divides between life and death, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, entertainment and education, kitsch and art.

Image: Venerina (Little Venus), life-sized, late 18th century dissectible wax model created by the workshop of Clemente Susini. Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, Italy, Italy. Photo by Joanna Ebenstein