NEUROSCIENCE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE OLD ANATOMY MUSEUM OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
The School of Medicine in Trinity College Dublin houses a heritage collection that spans three hundred years of medical teaching and includes anatomical and pathological specimens, models, and illustrations. This website showcases a selection of specimens and artefacts that relate to the history of neuroscience in Ireland.
A fragment of a wax model showing brain anatomy that was part of a famed early 18th century collection by Parisian anatomist Guillaume Dennoues. The collection was donated to the School of Medicine by the Earl of Shelbourne in 1739.
This assemblage of embryological brain models was created under the instruction of anatomist Daniel J. Cunningham pictured in the framed portrait in the background.
Painted in watercolour by Marsella Irwin in 1888.
A fragment of a wax model showing brain anatomy that was part of a famed early 18th century collection by Parisian anatomist Guillaume Dennoues. The collection was donated to the School of Medicine by the Earl of Shelbourne in 1739.
