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The Bone Museum

🦴Home to the largest public display of human bones in the U.S. Now open in Brooklyn, NY!💀
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27/08/2026

What does it take to build a career around the history of medicine, death, and the human body?

In this video, our host Meagan explores the career of Anna Dhody, Dhody Research Institute curator, educator, and forensic anthropologist previous associated with the Mütter Museum. From her work in forensic anthropology to her role in sharing the fascinating history of medicine, Dhody has helped bring the study of the human body to a wider audience.

Because behind every museum collection is a person dedicated to understanding the stories held within it.

27/08/2026

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a condition where ligaments and tendons along the spine gradually calcify and ossify, forming characteristic “flowing” bridges of bone across multiple vertebrae. While some people have few symptoms, DISH can cause spinal stiffness, reduced mobility, pain, and an increased risk of fractures in the rigid spine.

25/08/2026

What happens to bone when it spends years beneath the waves?
In this video, our host Abbey explores the physical changes that can occur when bones are submerged in the ocean for long periods of time. From the effects of saltwater and marine life to the ways the environment can alter the surface and structure of bone, the ocean can leave behind its own unmistakable mark.

Bones may survive for centuries, but they don’t survive unchanged.

24/08/2026

A major new milestone at The Bone Museum! 💀

After more than six months of planning, permissions, design, and installation, our new sprawling anatomy exhibit is officially complete. As the museum and collection continue to grow, so does our commitment to making osteology, anatomy, and medical history more accessible to everyone.

We’re incredibly proud of the team that brought this project to life and excited to give you a look at some of the upgrades happening throughout the museum.

23/08/2026

There is something beautifully human about the curiosity of a child standing face-to-face with our own mortality.

Laura & The Skeleton, photographed around 1987, captures four-year-old Laura Vallancourt examining a real human anatomical skeleton at Norfolk–Southwood Community Hospital.

The photograph was taken during a fascinating transitional moment in medical history, roughly two to three years after the collapse of the traditional medical bone trade in the United States. New restrictions and changing practices had effectively ended an industry that, for generations, supplied real human skeletons to hospitals, medical schools, and physicians for the study of anatomy.

Yet here, one of those skeletons remained in its original educational setting: not simply as an object, but as something capable of inspiring curiosity about the human body, life, and death.

Today, this photograph is preserved in The Bone Museum Archive Collection in Brooklyn, New York City, documenting both the history of anatomical education and the enduring human fascination with what lies beneath the skin.

Laura & The Skeleton
Photograph, c. 1987; digitally enhanced
Norfolk–Southwood Community Hospital
The Bone Museum Archive, Brooklyn, New York City

22/08/2026

This infant skeleton displays the skeletal effects of several serious developmental conditions, including rickets, hydrocephalus, and spina bifida. Together, they affected the formation of the skull, spine, and growing bones. Skeletons like this are important to medical collections as they help researchers study the effects of developmental and congenital defects, as well as nutritional deficiencies, on the growing skeleton.

22/08/2026

A skeleton found in a doctor’s home. A decades-old medical catalog. And a mystery that finally came together.
When a doctor passed away, his descendents discovered a skeleton in the house and eventually brought it to the Bone Museum. But where did it come from?

We wanted to know if this skeleton dated back to the era of the American bone trade, so we started digging. Then we found it: a Clay-Adams medical catalog from the 1940s featuring a skeleton that matched ours almost exactly.

The final piece fell into place when we learned the doctor attended medical school in New York during the 1940s.

The catalog, the skeleton, and the doctor’s history all pointed to the same place and time.

Sometimes, uncovering a specimen’s history means following the clues until the bones reveal their origin.

20/08/2026

What happens when two bones that are normally separate become fused together?

In this video, we explore congenital radioulnar synostosis, a rare condition where the radius and ulna are fused from birth, limiting the rotation of the forearm. 🦴

20/08/2026

What happens when human remains are found but no one knows who they belong to?

In this video, we explore the work of a medical examiner and how specialists study unidentified remains, searching for clues that can help restore a person’s identity and provide answers about their life and death.

18/08/2026

Why do some skeletons turn dark with age while others don’t?

The answer can sometimes be found in how they were preserved. In this video, Jon explores the differences between skeletons coated with lacquer for preservation and those that experienced a burial in dirt—and how those environments can leave behind very different patinas on bone.

Not all patinas tell the same story. Here, we’re focusing specifically on dark patinas and the processes that can create them.

Because sometimes, the surface of a bone can tell us almost as much as the bone itself.