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Zoomed in image of a hand written diary.

Cynthia Kapteyn

William S. McBride diary

Inside book cover with orange, blue, white and pink swirls with a designed inscription at the top.

Austin Plann Curley

Speculum vitae humanae

White woman in a dark shirt against a white background

Art Conservation: Science, Art, and Career

A Curiosity Interview with Christina O'Connell, senior paintings conservator

The Blue Boy

A Curiosity Interview with a curator and an art conservator

Information for Educators

Explore art that has been specifically created to deepen understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the visible universe.

Medicine

How have scientists used art to build and share their understanding of human bodies?

Two red leather buckets decorated with eagles bearing blue shields with scissors. Banners in their beaks read "Mechanic Fire Society"; banners in their talons read "William P. Gookin."

Object Story: Pair of Fire Buckets

These buckets were kept in the home of William Gookin, a tailor, and are decorated to show his family’s membership in the Mechanic Fire Society of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Black velvet cap in the shape of a pointed oval, with beadwork in blue, white, green, yellow, and red forming flowers and stems all over; made by a Haudenosaunee woman.

Object Story: Niagara Beadwork Hat

This hat was created by a Haudenosaunee craftsperson in the mid-nineteenth century.

Large, oval, pine and maple box, smooth and plain with six fingers forming a side seam and a chrome yellow finish.

Object Story: Oval Shaker Box

This large oval box was made at the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York.

A small colorful box with a lid is decorated with lengths of porcupine quills forming a geometric design on the lid and chevron patterns on sides.

Object Story: Quillwork box

A Quillwork box created by a Mi'kmaq artisan, a Native American tribe that live in eastern Maine and the Atlantic provinces of Canada.