The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

(TV movie)
  • France The Phantom Museum (festival title)
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Animation / Short
UK, 2003, 12 min

Directed by:

Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Cast:

Stephen Quay

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The Quay Brothers' exploration of the collections of medical paraphernalia amassed by Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), originally commissioned as a video installation for the British Museum's 2003 exhibition 'Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome'. The result is less a guided tour than a typically idiosyncratic foray through the collection's eccentrically selected miscellany. (British Film Institute (BFI))

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