What Lies Beneath?

Skin, the largest organ in our body, is the subject of an artful yet macabre exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection museum.

Perhaps because we live in it, we barely notice it. Skin, the largest organ in our body, is the subject of an artful yet macabre exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection museum. Curator Javier Moscoso, a Spanish professor of history and philosophy of science, looks at and under our epidermis. There are suture tools, a dissection of Gray’s Anatomy and wax hand models that display the skin of a painter denuded by turpentine and a bricklayer’s fist dried by lime. There are even squares of tattooed flesh that belonged to 16th century sailors. View, but mind your own goosebumps.